State v. Sliman

The defendant was charged with the offense of carnal knowledge, and upon the trial thereof was convicted. He was sentenced, on his conviction, to imprisonment for six months in the parish jail, and has appealed. The record, contains three bills of exception.

Bill No. 1. After the defendant had closed his case, the state, during the offering of its evidence in rebuttal, placed upon the stand one John McNabb, who testified that the defendant had asked him to use his influence with one Murry Ferguson to marry the prosecutrix, so that the case would be thrown out of court. The testimony was…