State v. Duplechain
Decision Date | 01 January 1900 |
Docket Number | 13,288 |
Citation | 52 La.Ann. 448,26 So. 1000 |
Court | Louisiana Supreme Court |
Parties | STATE OF LOUISIANA v. LEONCE DUPLECHAIN |
APPEAL from the Eleventh Judicial District, Parish of St. Landry. Dupre, J.
Milton J. Cunningham, Attorney General, and R. Lee Garland, District Attorney, for Plaintiff, Appellee.
E. P Veazie and James J. Bailey, for Defendant, Appellant.
Accused was prosecuted for murder, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. He has appealed.
The only ground of complaint urged is contained in a bill of exceptions, in which it is recited that The defendant objected to this mode of examination on the ground that "while proof of crime is always admissible to impeach a witness, proof of the correctness of the conviction, together with all the details of said crime, are not admissible," which objection the court overruled, assigning for reason that defendant's counsel having sought to impeach the witness' credit by showing a conviction of crime, the District Attorney had the right, in his re-examination of the witness, to sustain his character, by showing that although convicted, the judgment of conviction had been set aside and the case nol pros, and this, by way of permitting the impeached witness to make an explanation in support of his credibility, that it "is always proper to give a witness who has been impeached, either upon cross-examination, or by independent evidence, an opportunity to make any explanation he can in support of his own credibility." A. and E. Ency. of Law, Vol. 29, page 825.
That the witness was not permitted to minutely detail the facts, but was held only to answer questions going to show that the conviction had been set aside.
To which ruling of the court defendant reserved a bill of exceptions.
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