STATE v. NEAL

No. 43151.

93 So.2d 554 (1957)

231 La. 1048

STATE of Louisiana v. Cornelia NEAL.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 25, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam J. D'Amico, Baton Rouge, Leon A. Picou, Jr., St. Francisville, for defendant-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard Kilbourne, Dist. Atty., Clinton, for appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant Cornelia Neal, a Negro woman, was charged with the crime of attempted murder, tried, convicted of attempted manslaughter, and sentenced to serve six years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. She has appealed.

The first bill of exception upon which appellant relies for a reversal of the conviction was taken to a remark made by the district attorney in his opening statement to the jury to the effect that he would show that...

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