State v. Jefferson

Stanley Jefferson was indicted for the murder of Albert Gibson. He was tried by a jury, a verdict of “guilty as charged without capital punishment” was returned against him, and he was sentenced to serve in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, at hard labor, for the remainder of his life. From the verdict and sentence he appealed. There are' five bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1 was reserved to a ruling by the court sustaining an objection by the state to the admission of testimony relative to communicated threats made by the deceased against the defendant.

The defendant, while on the…