State v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The accused was charged with larceny. He was convicted and sentenced to hard labor.

He prosecutes this appeal and complains of the charge of the judge to the jury, in which he instructed them that while under the statute the accused was permitted to testify, yet it did not require him to testify; and if he did not, that fact was not to be taken against him.

His counsel in his behalf urged that it was error on the part of the judge to allude at all to the matter, as it tended to injure the cause ■of his client. Counsel does not contend that the…