McClay v. State

Smith, J. —

The plaintiff in error was indicted, with three other persons, for obtaining goods by false pretences. Having pleaded “not guilty,” he was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of one dollar and to be imprisoned in the state prison at hard labor for the term of two years, motions in arrest of judgment and for a new trial having been overruled.

By a bill of exceptions it appears that at the commencement of the trial, the defendant, by his counsel, requested the Court to reduce to writing the charges or instructions that should be-given to the jury. That only one witness…