State v. Sullivan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Oliver Sullivan was indicted for attempting to prevent a witness from testifying by threats. Motion to quash the indictment was sustained, and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, J.
The state prosecutes this appeal from a judgment quashing an indictment in which it is charged that defendant “did, by threats or intimidation, attempt to prevent Harney Chambers, a witness in a criminal case, from appearing or testifying as a witness in the case of State of Louisiana v. Louis Sullivan Charles Stevens, charged with larceny,” etc. The motion to quash, which was sustained, alleges (1) that the indictment is ambiguous, and does not distinctly charge any of the offenses denounced in section 880 of the Revised Statutes, the charge being made in the alternative; and (2) that the…
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