State v. Jones

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

The accused,'E. T. Jones, and two. others were jointly indicted for murder.

Jones was found guilty of manslaughter; the other co-defendants were acquitted.

From a sentence of twenty years at hard labor, the former prosecutes this appeal.

Five bills of exception are found in the record, and in this court an assignment of errors is filed.

Only the first and second bills and the assignment of errors, are pressed upon our attention.

The bill of exceptions first taken was to the refusal of the court to permit co-defendant Schultz, (subsequently…