State v. Cook

The defendant having been convicted on an indictment for robbery and sentenced to imx)risonment at hard labor for seven years, has appealed.

*348Our attention is directed to a bill of exceptions taken by the defendant to tlie ruling of the court in receiving the testimony of E. W. Robertson to prove what was sworn to on a former trial between the same parties on a charge for the same offense by the witness, Mrs. Lizzie Clark, since deceased. The objections to the testimony stated in the bill are:

First — The witness, Robertson, is the only counsel of the defendant, and he would be deprived of…