State v. Johnson

By the WHOLE COURT.

LAND, J.

Under an indictment charging the defendant with the crime of shooting with intent to murder, a verdict of shooting with intent to kill was returned by the jury.

Defendant was sentenced to the state penitentiary for a term of not less than two years nor more than three years, and relies for the reversal of the judgment against him upon the following bills of exception:

Bill No. 1.

Accused is charged with shooting Henry Aucoin on the night of April 15, 1924. As accused and Raoul Baptiste were approaching a railroad track on which Aucoin was standing, he accosted them by…