Court Opinion

ID: 3661817
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:13:06.644315+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:19:53.173889
License: Public Domain

This is a criminal action in which the defendant was tried on an indictment for murder, and convicted of manslaughter.
From judgment on the verdict, that defendant be confined in the State's prison at hard labor for a term of not less than twelve nor more than eighteen years, defendant appealed to the Supreme Court.
There was no error on the trial of this action for which the defendant is entitled to a new trial.
The only assignments of error on his appeal to this Court are based on his exceptions to the exclusion of testimony sought to be elicited on the cross-examination of witnesses for the State who had testified that the general character of another witness for the State was good, and that the deceased did not have a general reputation as a dangerous man. This testimony was offered as evidence tending to impeach these witnesses, and not as evidence upon the issue to be determined by the jury. If it be conceded that the testimony was admissible for the restricted purpose for which it was offered, we cannot hold that its exclusion was reversible error.
The conflicting evidence tending to sustain the verdict, and also in support of defendant's plea of self-defense, was submitted to the jury under a charge to which there were no exceptions. The judgment must be affirmed. We find
No error. *Page 808