Legal Opinion
State v. Cannon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 25, 1936No. 33914PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ODOM, Justice.
On January 16, 1935, Hugh A. Cannon shot and killed two women, the killing of the two being part of one and the same continuous transaction. Under article 218 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, as originally drafted, there could have been only one indictment against the defendant for the two homicides. But article 218 of the Code was repealed by Act No. 153 of 1932, and on January 31, 1935, the grand jury returned two separate murder indictments against Cannon, one for the killing of Mrs. • Minnie Jackson, which was numbered 77,528, and another for the killing of Mrs. Annie May…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- State v. LyonsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1904
- State v. RobertsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1930
- State v. CannonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1936
- State ex rel. Paine v. PottsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1897
- State ex rel. Armstrong v. Judge of the Eighth Judicial DistrictSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1896
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- State v. CarterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1944
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