State v. Lester

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

The bill of information filed in this case on October 3, 1945, charges that defendant, Joe P. Lester, on or about the 9th day of December, 1939, “did then and there wilfully and unlawfully in the night time and with felonious intent to steal, feloniously break and enter the store of one W. E. Barron, Bienville Parish, Louisiana * * On October 17, 1945, defendant was tried on said charge, adjudged guilty, and was thereafter sentenced by the court to serve a term of nine years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. From this conviction and sentence he has appealed.

During…