State v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vernon; John Bachman Lee, Judge. Will Thompson was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Defendant convicted of murder, without capital punishment, appeals from a sentence of imprisonment at hard labor for life, and relies for reversal on several bills of exception.
1. The indictment was returned by the grand jury on November 18, 1907, and on November 19, 1907, the defendant was arraigned without prejudice and pleaded not guilty. On the 21st of the same month the defendant moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the grand jury was without legal authority to act in the premises, because the term at which the indictment was found was not a regular criminal term of the…
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