State v. Murphy

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The appellate jurisdiction of this court in criminal cases is limited by the Constitution of this State to felonies or misdemeanors in which a statute has been declared unconstitutional or the defendant is sentenced to pay a fine exceeding $300 or to serve more than six months imprisonment.1 It necessarily follows this court is *875without jurisdiction of the appeal in the instant case by the State from the ruling of' the district judge maintaining defendants’ motion to quash the indictment charging them with malfeasance in office in violation of L.R.S. 14:134.2While the…