State v. Smith

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was indicted for murder, convicted thereof by the jury, without capital punishmeiit, and sentenced by the court to serve- the remainder of his life in the State Penitentiary at hard labor.

The defendant appealed and urges twenty-two bills of exception, which were reserved during the trial, for the purpose of having the verdict and the sentence annulled.

It appears that about midnight on April 12, 1935, a young colored woman named Mildred McCarty was killed at the Airport at Hodge, Jackson Parish, La. A bullet wound had been inflicted directly in the top of her head…