State v. Soileau

The appellant was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. He relies upon a bill of exceptions taken to a ruling of the district judge, allowing the district attorney, during the trial, to read to a witness for the state a part of the testimony which the witness had given at the coroner’s inquest.

A record of the facts on which the objection and ruling were founded is annexed to the bill of exceptions. The indictment was for the killing of a man named Chester Soileau. The district attorney, having before him the record of the testimony which the witness had…