State v. Ferrand

The defendant, Victor Ferrand, was tried on a charge of aggravated rape and is appealing from his conviction by the jury of attempted aggravated rape and his sentence thereunder to serve three years at hard labor, relying for the reversal thereof on the single alleged error committed during the trial of the case, i.e., the action of the trial judge in overruling his objection (that was based on the fact that he was only prepared to defend himself on the charge of having committed the offense on September 12, 1944, the date alleged in the indictment) to the testimony of the prosecuting witness…