State v. Foret

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The appellant was convicted of the crime of cattle stealing and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than twenty months nor more than five years. The indictment charged, specifically, that he stole a steer belonging to one Hilaire Templet. The appeal is based upon a bill of exceptions which was reserved near the end of the trial. When the prosecuting attorney had finished offering his evidence for the State, and announced that he rested the case, subject to the right to offer rebuttal evidence, and the attorneys for the defendant finished offering…