State v. Johnson

HAMITER, Justice.

Eldrege Johnson is appealing from his conviction and sentence for the crime of aggravated battery, the indictment under which he was tried (and found guilty by a jury of five) having charged that on or about November 21, 1946, he “committed a battery with a dangerous weapon upon Daniel Frey.” The appeal presents for our consideration a single bill of exceptions reserved to the overruling of defendant’s objection to a question propounded by the district attorney to Mrs. Sadie Soileau, a witness for the state.

Mrs. Soileau, who was a neighbor of the accused, had testified that…