State v. Romero

Citations

• 117 La. 1003
• 42 So. 482
• 1906 La. LEXIS 810

Syllabus

<p>1.Witnesses — Residents of Another Parish.</p> <p>Whether witnesses shall be required to attend from another parish is a matter left entirely to the discretion of the judge.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 50, Witnesses, § 9.]</p> <p>2.Same — Impeachment.</p> <p>A female witness cannot be impeached by an attack upon her chastity.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 50, Witnesses, § 1121.]</p> <p>3.Criminal Law — Evidence — Secondary Evidence.</p> <p>Parol evidence of the age of a person is not secondary evidence, and is not made so by the circumstances of there having been a registry made of the baptism of the person.</p> <p>TEd. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 14, Criminal Law, § 880.]</p> <p>4. Criminal Law — Remarks of Counsel.</p> <p>Complaint being made of a remark of the district attorney not intended for the jury, the jury were called one by one and asked whether they had heard the remark, their attention being called to the time when, and the circumstances under which, the remark was made, and they answered they remembered the time and circumstances, but had not heard the remark, and thereupon the defendant asked that the objectionable remark be repeated to the jury and the specific question put to them whether they had heard it, held, the judge properly refused to allow the remark to be repeated.</p> <p>5. Same.</p> <p>Remarks made by the district attorney argumentatively furnish no ground for setting aside the verdict.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>