State v. Tobias

HAMITER, Justice.

Moise Tobias, the defendant, was indicted and tried for the murder on October IS, 1949, of one John Esnault. The jury returned a verdict of “guilty as charged — without capital punishment”, and the court sentenced him to confinement at hard labor in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for the rest of his natural life. From the conviction and sentence he has appealed, relying for a reversal on nine bills of exceptions reserved during the course of the trial.

Of these bills, all of which may be considered and disposed of in two groups, some were taken when the court sustained…