State v. Van Duff
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Tenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Concordia; N. M. Calhoun, Judge. One Van Duff was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPbovosty, J.
Accused was tried for manslaughter, was convicted, and has appealed.
The deceased, whose age is variously stated at from 68 to 80, lived several miles out in the woods on the bank of Bayou Gocodra, with his wife, considerably older than he, as we gather, and their daughter Emma, whose age is not otherwise fixed in the record than by her statement that she was older than her sister, who had been married 17 years; The accused had lived at the house of the deceased for 11 months when he and the daughter Emma married. They went to Vidalia for that purpose, because the father would *715have' opposed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. PairsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1919
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