State v. Hurst

Defendant is indicted in separate indictments for the murder of Johnnie Hurst and of Marvin Allen on March 15, 1931, in the parish of St. Helena.

Defendant was tried and acquitted under the indictment charging him with the murder of Johnnie Hurst. Thereafter, having been incarcerated in the parish jail, without the benefit of bail, under the indictment charging him with the murder of Marvin Allen, defendant applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the two homicides resulted from one continuous unlawful transaction, and that therefore only one indictment…