State v. Pete

FOURNET, Justice.

Hampton Pete having been charged in a bill of information with “the theft of an automobile, of the value of Twelve Hundred and no/100 ($1200.00) Dollars, the property of Gordons Drug Store, Inc.,” is here seeking to have his conviction thereunder and sentence to serve 2 years and 6 months at hard labor in the State Penitentiary reversed because of certain errors allegedly committed during the course of his trial, to which timely objections were made and bills of exceptions reserved.

The first bill was reserved when the trial judge overruled the defendant’s motion— filed after…