State v. Titus

The district attorney of the Twenty-Eirst judicial district filed a hill of information against defendant charging him with having illegally, willfully and feloniously assaulted, beaten, and wounded one A. G. Markins, a deputy sheriff of the parish of Iberville, state of Louisiana, duly appointed and qualified, while he, the said Markins, in his said capacity as deputy sheriff, was then and there serving and attempting to serve and execute a certain warrant for the arrest of defendant issued by the justice of the peace in and for the Third ward of that parish.

He was tried on this charge,…