State v. Travis

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

Quincy Travis and Richard Travis, as principals, and W. E. Pratt as accessory before the fact, were convicted of arson — the burning of the court-house of Winn parish — and appeal from a sentence imposed of seven years imprisonment at hard labor.

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Our attention is first called to several bills of exceptions, taken to the rulings of the trial judge.

The first bill shows:

'That against Butler and Pratt, it was offered to show “ that there were indictments pending and on file in the court-house at the time it was burned — offered for the purpose of…