State v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. f“ Spencer Thomas was convicted under an indictment charging him with willfully and with malice aforethought shooting at another with intent to commit murder, and he apj__peals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The accused quarreled with one Washington in front of the latter’s house, walked about 200 yards away, and procured a gun, and returned, and, without excuse, fired at Washington, wounding both him and one Alma Meyers who was on the gallery of the house back of him. The indictment reads that the defendant:
“Willfully, feloniously, and of his malice aforethought did shoot Alma Meyers with a dangerous weapon with intent to commit murder, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.
The statute is section 791, Rev. St., as amended by Act No. 43 of 1890, and reads:
“Whoever shall shoot, stab, cut,…
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