State v. Sweeney

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

The defendant was prosecuted for murder and convicted of manslaughter. Prom the verdict and judgment thereon sentencing him to fifteen years at hard labor, he appeals to this Court.

*2The record contains one bill of exception, taken to the refusal cf the District Judge to grant a new trial.

The bill sets forth no right and no grievance. It does not even aver that the motion for a new trial was well founded and that the judge erred in overruling it.

The motion, which is attached to the bill, is based on six grounds, four of which attack the…