State v. Kennon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, C. J.

The appellant was sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for the period of seven years, having been convicted of manslaughter under an indictment for murder.

Two bills of exception are in the record and relied apon and urged as grounds of reversal.

The second is to the overruling by the District Court of a motion for a new trial. The first to the action of the court in permitting the district attorney on cross-examination of the accused, when on the stand as a witness in his own behalf, to ask certain questions over defendant’s…