State v. O'Kean

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant appeals from a judgment sentencing him on a verdict of guilty of embezzlement to one year at hard labor.

The record contains four bills of exception: one, taken to the refusal of the Judge to allow a question to be put and answered; two, to his *902refusal to give charges asked, and a last one to his overruling of the motion for a new trial.

The first bill shows, that the prosecuting witness, being under cross-examination, counsel for the defense asked him to “ examine the books in his charge, turn to the account of one Platt,…