State v. Faulk

McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant was tried and convicted for attempted manslaughter and sentenced to serve five years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. During the trial, three bills of exceptions were reserved.

The first bill was taken to the overruling of a motion for a mistrial, which was founded on the premise that the State had prejudiced appellant in the presence of the jury by placing the shotgun, with which the crime was allegedly committed, on a table in front of the jury box and allowing it to remain there for at least ten minutes before the weapon was introduced in evidence.

We find…