State v. Laviolette

HAMLIN, Justice:

Defendant was indicted for the crime of negligent homicide (LSA-R.S. 14:32), tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve four years and eleven months at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. He appeals to this Court from his conviction and sentence, presenting for consideration two unsigned bills of exceptions and a motion for a new trial, no bill of exceptions being reserved to the trial judge’s overruling of the motion.

During the course of trial, counsel for defendant reserved five bills of exceptions, which were all timely filed. (Three were abandoned during argument in this…