State v. Howard

MOISE, Justice.

Edward “Nig” Howard was charged by indictment with having committed a battery with a dangerous weapon upon Mario Termini. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve four years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary. From that conviction and sentence, he appeals.

The State’s answer to a motion for a bill of particulars discloses that the defendant was charged with having shot Mario Termini. At the time of the alleged crime, Lake Pleasure Club located on Second the defendant, a caretaker for the Second Lake, was on the club’s private property and Termini was in a boat on…