State v. Iles

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was indicted for the murder of W. B. Jacobs, a police officer in the City of Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. He was tried, found guilty by the jury as charged, and was sentenced to death. He appealed and relies upon eight bills of exception for the annulment of the conviction and the sentence.

Bill of exception No. 1 was reserved to the ruling of the trial court in permitting the State’s witness to testify to what transpired in his presence in the dance hall where the killing took place, even though he was unable to identify the accused as the man who shot and…