State v. Boudreaux

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Pete Boudreaux, was indicted and tried for the murder of Absey Cormier, and convicted of manslaughter. Eleven bills of exception were reserved to the rulings of the lower court. A motion for a new trial, incorporating the bills of exception as a basis therefor, was filed and denied by the court, to which ruling the defendant reserved a bill of exception; whereupon the defendant was sentenced to serve a term of not less than three nor more than nine years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. The defendant has appealed.

Counsel for defendant contends that the…