State v. Joiner

The grand jury for the parish of Livingston returned a bill of indict ment against defendant, charging him with the murder of Dr. James A. Cannon. Defendant was tried on the bill and was found guilty as charged. Upon this verdict He was sentenced to death. He prosecutes this appeal from the verdict rendered and from the sentence pronounced, relying upon a number of bills of exception for a reversal.

Bill No. 1.

On the trial of the ease, the state offered the procés verbal of the coroner’s inquest to show the death of the deceased, and the date and cause thereof. Defendant objected to this…