State v. Miller
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Third Judicial District Court, Parish of Claiborne; B. P. Edwards, Judge. R. J. Miller and others were convicted of manslaughter, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The defendants and the late Thos. Maddy were not on good terms.
The son of the deceased and one of the defendants had a quarrel on the day of the homicide that aggravated the had feeling existing.
On the trial of the defendants on the charge of murder, they sought to contradict one of the witnesses for the state by offering to read to the jury the testimony that the witness had given at the coroner’s inquest.
There was objection made and a ruling by the court, to which we will refer later.
The next point grew out of the offer by the defense of the testimony of the sister of the deceased, by whom…
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