State v. Smith
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; Samuel Jami-son Henry, Judge. George Smith was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
Defendant was tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to the penitentiary.
He complains that the state was allowed to introduce as rebuttal evidence what in *531reality was simply cumulative evidence. In other words, that the fatal shot having been fired by some member of a crowd, and the question being whether defendant or some other member of the crowd had fired it, the state was allowed to introduce additional evidence of the shot having been fired by defendant after defendant had introduced evidence to show that it had been fired by some one else.
The manner of the…
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