State v. Alexander

McCALEB, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of incest, in that he had sexual relations with one of his daughters, and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. During the course of the proceedings, he allegedly reserved 26 bills of exception upon which he relies for a reversal of his conviction.

An examination of the record discloses that the so-called bills of exception do not conform to the requirements of Articles 499 and 500 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,1 most of them being so carelessly drawn that they are indefinite, confusing and, in some…