State v. Nash

Defendant, indicted for murder, was found guilty as charged without capital punishment, and was sentenced to the penitentiary for life. . . . ■ .

He has appealed from the conviction and sentence, and presents to this court for review nine bills of exceptions.

Bill No. 1.

The district attorney, on direct examination, propounded the following question to a state witness; “I ask you this, if any of these three parties in the restaurant j.ust before the shooting, Maggie Crumpton, or Ruth Jackson, or Marguerite Smith, was in there, tell me which one it was?”

The objection by defendant’s counsel to…