Legal Opinion

State v. Manager

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 2, 1922No. 24985PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafayette; Wm, Campbell, Judge. Felix Manager and others pleaded guilty to grand larceny. The named defendant’s motion for permission to withdraw plea of guilty was overruled, and he appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.

Appellant was charged, jointly with Gus Foreman and three other méñ, with the crime of burglary of a box car and the crime of grand larceny. When the five defendants were arraigned, Gus Foreman, who was represented by an attorney, pleaded “not guilty.” The four other defendants, not represented by an attorney, pleaded “guilty” to the charge of grand larceny, and the district attorney entered a nolle prosequi on the charge of burglary. Thereupon each of the four defendants who had pleaded guilty of the crime of grand larceny was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. CostonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. State v. BaudoinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
  2. Commonwealth v. DipaulSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  3. State v. HarrisLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2008
  4. Rizzo v. New Orleans Railway & Light Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1928
  5. State v. LissotaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1922

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