State v. Conerly
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Sixteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Washington. Reid, J. Defendant was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. From that verdict and sentence he appeals. The questions presented for review are embodied in three bills of exception.
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APPEAL from the Sixteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Washington. Reid, J. Defendant was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. From that verdict and sentence he appeals. The questions presented for review are embodied in three bills of exception. The first bill recites “ that upon the trial of the ease the defendant, discovering or believing that a witness for the State who had been dismissed from the stand had made statements contradictory to what he had testified to upon the stand concerning material facts, called the witness back to the stand solely for the purpose…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The first question to be considered is whether the defendant, having tendered and offered a witness “ for the purpose of *1564showing that a State witness named Warren Barnes had shortly after the killing made a statement different from that made upon the stand,” the court ruled correctly in refusing to allow said witness to testify on that subject. The witness Barnes had been examined by the State, cross-examined by the defendant and dismissed. After the State had closed its case in chief, defendant called Barnes to the stand, without any…
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