State v. Waggoner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Poché, J.

This appeal is brought up by J. A. Waggoner from a conviction of murder without capital punishment, under an indictment charging him and four others with the commission of said crime.

His complaints are numerous and are embodied in eight bills of exception.

I

In his first bill he charges error in the ruling of the judge who refused to restrict the State to six peremptory challenges. Under the law, Act No. 30 of 1878, the State was entitled to thirty peremptory challenges as there were five accused jointly charged and tried together. State vs.…