State v. Pitre

The accused was charged with embezzling $348. He was tried, convicted of the crime charged, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the state penitentiary for a term of ten months. He has appealed from the verdict and sentence. There are four bills of exception in the record.

Bills Nos. 1 and 3 were reserved to rulings of the court sustaining objections by the state to the cross-examination of a state wit ness on immaterial and irrelevant matter for the purpose of testing the credibility and impeaching the testimony of the witness. This is the sole question these bills present. In the…