State v. Turner
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lincoln; Robert Brooks Dawkins, Judge. R. W. Turner was convicted of horse stealing, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The defendant was sentenced for three years at hard labor for horse stealing.
The theft is alleged to have been committed on the 6th of August. The information was filed on the 25th of August. The jury term of the court was to begin on the 5th of October. On the 2d of October an attorney who had been employed by defendant asked that the ease be not fixed at the term about to begin, for the reason that he, the-attorney, would not be able to attend, owing to other professional engagements, and that defendant had no other lawyer, having been unable to come to an agreement as to fees with any one…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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