State v. Pope

HAMITER, Justice..The defendant, Albert Pope, appealed from his conviction of the crime of aggravated battery (a felony), as well as from a sentence of five years and six months at hard labor in the state penitentiary, and submits for our consideration numerous bills of exceptions.

On the hearing of the appeal defense counsel complained, under several of the bills, that the accused was ordered to trial without a valid arraignment. They urged, in this connection, that the minutes of the trial court do not affirmatively show that the defendant was present when his then attorney waived the…