State v. Bergeron

This is a mandamus proceeding to compel the district judge to grant the defendant an appeal from a sentence imposed in a criminal prosecution.

The indictment was for the crime of bigamy, as denounced by section 800 of the Revised Statutes; the penalty having been increased by Act 93 of 1898, p. 116. Defendant filed a motion to quash the indictment, contending that Act 93 of 1898 was unconstitutional because it did not contain a reference to section 800 of the Revised Statutes, and did not define the crime of bigamy; and contending that, as section 800 was repealed by the statute of 189S, there…