State v. Scarbrough

The defendant, appellant, stands convicted of murder and. condemned to suffer the penalty of death. He was indicted jointly with one Thomas Pickelheimer for the murder of Thomas H. Register, on the finding of a dead body, said to be Register, in a slip of woods in the outskirts of New Orleans. The evidence against Scarbrough and Pickelheimer was only circumstantial, except that a confession was made by Scarbrough, saying that he, in company with Pickelheimer, took Register out into the woods, in an automobile, for the purpose of killing and robbing him, and that Pickelheimer then and there…