State v. Hagan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The defendant was indicted under Act 17 of 1888, amending Sec. 794, for (with a certain dangerous weapon, to-wit: a razor) wilfully, feloniously and maliciously inflicting a wound less than mayhem.

*840He was found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for six months.

After an ineffectual attempt to obtain a new trial and to arrest the judgment, he prosecutes this appeal.

His counsel moved for a new trial, upon the following grounds:

That an order issued by the court to separate the witnesses for the State and those for the defendant,…