State v. Ladd

The prisoner has appealed from the judgment of the First District Court of New Orleans, sentencing him to hard labor in the Penitentiary for three years, having been found guilty of manslaughter with a recommendation to the mercy of the court, under an indictment for the murder of one Sahlessinger.

Various bills of exceptions were taken by the defendant’s counsel during the proceedings, and are relied on here to procure a reversal of the judgment.

We find it necessary to decide only one of the legal points presented.

The cause was submitted to the jury on the 29th of June, 1854. In the evening…