State v. Pullen

The defendant, Jeff Pullen, was indicted by the grand jury of Natchitoches parish, on the 7th day of December, 1911, for the alleged murder of Henderson Jones in that parish on the 1st day of November, 1904. He was put on his trial on the 7th day of December, 1911, and on that day he was convicted of manslaughter, and his punishment was assessed at 10 years in the penitentiary.

He reserved a number of bills of exceptions. In the first, it is stated that the accused sought to prove by two witnesses, to wit, the accused himself and a Frank Morris, that, at the time of the shooting, the deceased…