State v. Terry

LE BLANC, Justice.

The defendant appeals from a conviction by a jury and sentence in the district court under which he was committed tq the State Penitentiary for a period of ten years.

He was charged by an information filed by the District Attorney with having, on March 15, 1952, “attempted to murder Rufus Elmer Cooley.” He reserved certain bills of exception to rulings in the court below on which he bases his appeal and seeks a reversal of his conviction.

Defendant had summoned a number of witnesses by whom he intended to adduce evidence of the injured person’s dangerous character. To the…