Legal Opinion

State v. Smith

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided July 1, 1895No. 11,757PublishedCited by 1 opinion

APPEAL from the Criminal District Oourt for the Parish of Orleans. Ferguson, J.

1Opinion of the Court

*433The opinion of the esurt was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant was indicted and convicted of the ■crime of embezzlement as an attorney, and from a judgment and sentence to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of three years he has appealed, relying on three bills of exception taken to the rulings of the trial judge.

The first bill relates to an exception defendant’s counsel tendered to the charge of the court.

The second relates to the judge’s declination to give to the jury a special charge as requested by the defendant’s counsel.

The third relates to the judge’s refusal to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McNew's Executors v. RogersTennessee Supreme Court · 1848

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. State v. StringerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1927

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