State v. Vicknair
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist ;• Prentice Ellis Edrington, Judge. - Renes Vicknair was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
PROVOSTY, J.
Defendant was tried for murder, and convicted of manslaughter, and has appealed.
The state moves to dismiss the appeal, as having been taken too late. The law governing the matter is Act No. 108, p. 155, of 1898, which provides that “appeals in criminal cases shall be taken in open court within three days after sentence.” Defendant was sentenced on the 7th, and the court then adjourned over to, and did not again sit until, the 12th, when the appeal was taken. This was in time, since the appeal had to be taken in open court, and was taken the very first day that court…
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