State v. Anderson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marr, J.

The appellant was convicted of rape, in the Superior Criminal Court for the parish of Orleans, and sentenced to the penitentiary for life. After an ineffectual motion for a new trial, he brings the dasebefore us by appeal.

His counsel assigns for errors, apparent on the face of the record:

First — That the act of the Legislature, No. 124, approved ninth of April, 1874, creating the Superior Criminal Court, is in violation of the constitution, article seventy-three, which vests the entire judicial power in a Supreme Court, district courts, parish…