State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Assumption. Guión, J. Statement. On September 23, 1898, Montgomery Williams, the accused in this case, was indicted by the grand jurors oE the parish of Assumption, charged with having murdered one Severin Frank on the 4th day of July, 1896. On September 80, 1896, he was duly tried and found guilty of manslaughter.
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A PPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Assumption. Guión, J. Statement. On September 23, 1898, Montgomery Williams, the accused in this case, was indicted by the grand jurors oE the parish of Assumption, charged with having murdered one Severin Frank on the 4th day of July, 1896. On September 80, 1896, he was duly tried and found guilty of manslaughter. On the 5th day of October, 1896, a motion for a new trial was filed on the ground that .one of the jurors had separated from the others during the trial of the case; for this reason a new trial was granted. On…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by Nicholls, C. J., and banded down May 10, 1897.
The first bill reserved was to the ruling of the court on the challenge for cause of Anatole Hebert, one of the jurors drawn from the regular panel. The bill of exception, as presented to the court, alleges that the juror on. his voir dire said that he had formed an opinion, which was a fixed one. The able and impartial judge of the lower court, before signing the bill, added that he did not remember that the juror had said that his opinion was a -fixed one, but that if he did he could not have meant to…
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