State v. Hunt

The opinion of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

Oliver Hunt was convicted of larceny in the FirstDistrict Court of New Orleans, and was sentenced, for his offence, to two years imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiaiy. He applied for a new trial, on his affidavit that he had, since the trial, discovered two witnesses, by whose testimony he could establish an alibi. The district judge overruled the application for a new trial, and Hunt has appealed from the judgment awarding the sentence.

We do not propose to examine the sufficiency of the affidavit; but to consider the question,…