State v. Guy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe, J.

Zenon Guy and several others were convicted of larceny and Guy has appealed from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor. *9ITis case is presented to this court upon a single bill of exceptions, from which it appears that he took the stand as a witness in his own behalf and that the State thereafter called witnesses for the purpose of proving that his character “for truth and veracity and honesty” was bad; that thereupon his counsel stated that he had no objection to the administration of proof as to the character of the accused for truth and…