State v. Foster

The defendant was indicted for murder. He was arraigned, tried, found guilty as a charged without capital punishment, and was- sentenced to life imprisonment, at hard labor, in the state penitentiary. From the judgment and sentence he appealed.

There are thirty-two bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1 was reserved to the refusal of the court to permit defendant to withdraw his plea of not guilty for the purpose of filing motions to quash the indictment. It is not necessary that the plea should be withdrawn. All that the law requires is that the motion should be filed with the permission…