State v. Firmatura
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Dennis Miller, Judge. Jack Firmatura, Frank Bongiovanni, and others were jointly indicted for murder. Bongiovanni was granted a severance, and appeals from a conviction.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Jack Firmatura, Jack Abate, and Frank Bongiovanni having been jointly indicted for murder (and Victor Abate having been charged in the same bill with being an accessory before the fact), Bongiovanni was granted a severance, and, having been convicted, without capital punishment, has appealed.
1-Ie relies on two bills of exceptions — the one, to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment; the other, to the sustaining of an objection, interposed by the state’s attorney, to a question propounded on voir dire to certain persons called to serve as jurors.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- State v. DonelonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1893
- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
3Cited by8 opinions
- State v. MatassaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
- State v. RevereSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
- State v. SwindallSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- State v. LouviereSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1928
- United States v. HectorDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
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