State v. Tucker

FOURNET, Justice.

The defendant, Robert E. Tucker, having been tried under the provisions of Act No. 14 of the Second Extraordinary Session of 1934 for wilfully and unlawfully possessing marijuana cigarettes, prosecutes this appeal from his conviction and sentence to serve not less than 20 months nor more than 5 years in the state penitentiary at hard labor, relying for the reversal thereof on two errors allegedly committed during the course of his trial and prejudicial to his cause.

His fist exception was taken to the following statement made by the district attorney during the course of his…