State v. Guin

FOURNET, Justice.

Gordon Guin, a boy 16 years old, was tried and convicted, without capital punishment, on an indictment charging him with the murder of a 17 year old girl, Elsie Mae Arnold. He is appealing from his conviction and sentence to life imprisonment, relying for the reversal thereof on eighteen bills of exceptions reserved during the course of his trial.

The first fifteen bills are identical for all intents and purposes. They were levelled at the trial judge’s ruling permitting the district attorney to propound certain questions to the prospective jurors when examining them on their…