State v. Arata
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans. Whitaker, J. No brief filed on the part of the State. Henry 0. Castellanos and Arthur Gastinel, fqr the defendant, contended : First — That the question of whether the panel was drawn by a quorum of jury commissioners is a pure and exclusive question of law which this court has a right to pass on. 14 A. 461; 13 A. 46 ; 12 A. 679 ; 10 A. 271; 4 A. 505 ; 20 A. 442 ; 29 A. 824. Second — The second point, embodied in…
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APPEAL from the Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans. Whitaker, J. No brief filed on the part of the State. Henry 0. Castellanos and Arthur Gastinel, fqr the defendant, contended : First — That the question of whether the panel was drawn by a quorum of jury commissioners is a pure and exclusive question of law which this court has a right to pass on. 14 A. 461; 13 A. 46 ; 12 A. 679 ; 10 A. 271; 4 A. 505 ; 20 A. 442 ; 29 A. 824. Second — The second point, embodied in our challenge to the array, was that one of the jury commissioners, which is an office of profit and trust, was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
DeBlanc, J.
Thomas Arata was indicted and tried for manslaughter, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the term of five years, and to pay a fine of five dollars and the costs of the -prosecution.
He appealed; his case was submitted without argument, and his counsel allowed — to file a brief in his behalf — the delay which he asked. That delay has elapsed, and the promised brief has not been filed.
We have carefully examined the record, and ascertained that Arata’s .defence is based on two grounds, the first of which is “ that the…
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