Barratteau v. State

Appellant, Jacques Barratteau, was charged by information with second degree murder. Upon trial the jury found him guilty as charged. The trial court adjudicated him guilty and sentenced him to one hundred thirty-four years imprisonment.

Appellant urges reversal of his conviction and sentence. The points relied upon for reversal are that (1) “the trial court erred in restricting the defendant’s cross-examination of a state witness, where such questioning was crucially relevant to the theory of the defense, in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United…