State v. Davis

*385FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Luther H. Davis, having been found guilty without capital punishment of the murder of James “Buddy” Bennett under an indictment returned by the St. Tammany Parish grand jury, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the state penitentiary at hard labor, is appealing therefrom, relying for the reversal of his conviction and sentence on twenty-nine Bills of Exceptions reserved during the course of the trial, which were duly perfected.

The record reveals the defendant and his wife were arrested late on the afternoon of December 23, 1962, and confined in the…