State v. Parks
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Wesley Parks was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
BREAUX, O. J.
The grand jury found an indictment against the defendant for murder.
The ease was tried and an unqualified verdict returned: Guilty.
The case is before us upon one ground, set up in the only bill of exceptions taken.
We are informed in substance by the argument that the plea was that defendant did not intend to kill deceased, his daughter, whom he had repeatedly warned to lead a chaste and proper life; but, when informed that she had just given birth to an illegitimate child, he was aroused to a degree of madness that drove him to the commission of acts of…
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