State v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Egan, J.

The defendant was tried, convicted, and sentenced to fifteen *718months imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, upon the charge of larceny of “ an animal of the co.w kind,”, After an ineffectual motion for new trial, and an equally ineffectual motion in, arrest ,of judgment he has appealed. . „ :

' The first ground of error assigned is that the court permitted the district attorney to ask one Guy, his own witnessj and not shown to be hostile to him or the prosecution, or reluctant to give evidence, the leading question, •“ did or did not…