State v. Plaisance

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Kenneth Plaisance, having been convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at hard labor for the balance of his natural life on an indictment charging him with aggravated rape prosecutes this appeal, relying for the reversal thereof on six errors allegedly committed during the course of the trial to which objections were made and bills of exception timely made and perfected.

The first bill was reserved when the trial judge ruled the defendant, being able to understand the nature of the proceedings against him and assist…