State v. Seals
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Ascension; Chas. T. Wortham, Judge. Louis Seals was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant was indicted for murder, found guilty without capital punishment, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Defendant has appealed, and relies for reversal on several bills of exception.
Defendant moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the grand jury returning the same were selected and drawn by the jury commission solely from the supplemental list, and not from the venire of 300 names, and that the said commission did not strike from the general venire list the names of all those who had served and were disqualified from jury service. The only evidence…
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