State v. Rowland

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Elmer Rowland, having been convicted under a Bill of Information with having, “unlawfully killed one John Strieker,” and sentenced to serve three years at hard labor in the Louisiana state penitentiary, prosecutes this appeal, relying primarily for the reversal of this conviction and sentence on Bill of Exceptions No. 1, reserved when the trial judge sustained the state’s objection to the in*731terrogation by defense counsel of several witnesses with respect to the “previous had character and disposition of the deceased.”

In his per curiam to this bill, the…