State v. Butler

McCALEB, Chief Justice.

Leon Harold Butler was tried by a jury and convicted of the crime of aggravated arson. He was sentenced to serve • ten years in the State penitentiary at hard labor. On this appeal the accused is relying on twenty-six. bills, of exceptions, to obtain a reversal of the conviction.

The minutes of the proceedings below as well as other portions of the record unmistakably disclosed that the defendant. was •tried on a charge of aggravated arson. However, in our examination of the record following submission of the case, we have found that at some time prior to the lodging of…