State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; Edward Taylor Lewis, Judge. Resie Williams and Lee Williams were convicted of manslaughter. From the judgment, Resie Williams appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, J.
Resie Williams and Lee Williams having been indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter, Lee Williams was granted a new trial, and Resie Williams was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor. From this sentence she has appealed, and presents her case to this court by means of certain bills of exception, viz.:
Bill No. 1, to. the ruling of the trial judge in permitting the prosecuting attorney to ask Millie Slater, a witness for the state, whether she had not, before the coroner’s jury, made a statement at variance with the testimony which she had just given on the trial.
The trial judge…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
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