Legal Opinion

State v. Precovara

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 29, 1897No. 12,453PublishedCited by 7 opinions

A PPEAL from the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Iberia. Voorhies, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

An information for a prescriptible offence was filed.

A plea of prescription was interposed as a bar to the prosecution.

On the trial of this plea it was proved that an indictment had been found, which, upon a motion made by the defendant to quash, was-quashed by the court.

Whereupon the District Attorney filed an information.

The judgment of the District Court sustained the plea of prescription.

From the judgment the District Attorney has taken this appeal.

The defendant could not be legally convicted. The information did not negative…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Davenport v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1921
  2. Pueblo v. LugoSupreme Court of Puerto Rico · 1941
  3. State v. LecompteSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1947
  4. State v. ShushanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1943
  5. State v. GibsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902

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