Longworth

' By the court: (Rost, J., dissenting.)

Preston, J.

The prisoner was prosecuted for larceny, convicted and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary, and to pay the costs of prosecution. He took an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Immediately afterwards, he applied to the executive for a reprieve and pardon. A reprieve was granted by the governor for good and sufficient reasons, but upon the condition, that he should remain in the parish prison until the meeting of the next Legislature, in order that the sense of the Senate may be made known, as to their concurrence with…