State v. Sheffield

SIMON, Justice.

Joseph Sheffield has appealed to this Court from his conviction and sentence to death for the crime of murder and relies upon eleven bills of exception for the reversal thereof.

The accused was indicted on June 17, 1953, by the grand jury for Franklin Parish for the murder of John L. Waller on June 14, 1953, and was duly arraigned. His offer to plead guilty to the said charge was refused by the trial court, and counsel was appointed to represent and assist him in his defense, and his trial therefor was regularly set for June 29, 1953, in the Fifth Judicial District Court. The…