State v. Magee

John W. Magee is appealing from his conviction of manslaughter on an indictment charging him with the murder of Luther Barton and his sentence thereunder to serve 15 years at hard labor in the State Penitentiary, relying for the reversal thereof on errors allegedly made by the trial judge during the course of the trial, to which timely objection was made and proper bills of exceptions reserved.

The first bill was reserved when the state sought, over defendant's objection, to offer in evidence a bloody shirt worn by the deceased at the time of the homicide. The second and third bills were…