State v. Ardoin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
ON APPEAL from the Eleventh Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Landry. Dupre, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Millkr, J.
The accused, convicted of burning a vacant dwelling, punishable with imprisonment at hard labor, takes this appeal from the sentence.
lie assigns as error patent- on the record, that the offence of which he was convicted, was committed prior to the adoption of the present Constitution, authorizing1 convictions on the concurrence of nine of the jury, that the constitutional provision in this respect as applied to offences before the Constitution was adopted, is ex post facto legislation, and hence the sentence based on the verdict concurred in…
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