State v. Simpson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-fourth District Court Parish of Plaque-mines. Idvaudais, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court wras delivered by
Todd, J.
The defendant, indicted and tried for murder, and convicted of manslaughter, appeals from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor for twenty years.
The indictment was returned into court on the fifth of October, 1885,. the same day the accused was arraigned and counsel assigned to defend lier, and the case fixed for trial on the ninth of same month.. On that day the counsel made a motion for a continuance accompanied by his affidavit, stating that he “ was only assigned as counsel in thiscanse late on the evening of the fifth of October, and…
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