State v. Carter

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was charged in a bill of information, in the first count, with feloniously attempting to murder D. F. Goodwin, a deputy sheriff of East Baton Rouge Parish, and, in the second count, with attempting to murder B. E. Norwood, also a deputy sheriff, on December 25, 1942. After certain pleas were overruled, there was a trial on the merits resulting in a verdict of “Guilty as charged.” He was sentenced to five years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary, on each count, the sentences to run concurrently.

The defendant appealed and relies upon twelve bills of exception…