State v. Washington

The defendants were charged jointly with the crime of assault with intent to rob. They were tried, and each defendant was found guilty as charged. The accused were sentenced to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, at hard labor, for the following terms of imprisonment, viz.: Washington and Allen to not less than ten nor more than twenty years, and Mahler to not less than thirteen nor more than twenty years. All of the accused appealed from the verdict and sentence. There are four bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1 was reserved by Harold Mahler to the admission in evidence of a…