State v. Wilson

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendant stands convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for two years. In a motion for a new trial he pleaded that the State had not offered any evidence whatever to prove a certain alleged fact, the proof of which was essential to a valid conviction of the crime charged in the bill of information. The motion was overruled and a bill of exception was reserved.

The evidence that was offered before the jury consists of the testimony of five witnesses for the State, and is very brief The defendant did not offer any…