Legal Opinion
State v. Benoit
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided December 7, 1918No. 23123PublishedCited by 16 opinions
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Martin; James Simon, Judge. Amel Benoit and Stanley Benoit were prosecuted for murder and Stanley Benoit was acquitted, and, from a conviction of manslaughter, Amel Benoit appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLeche, J.
[1] The accused, Amel Benoit, appeals from a verdict of manslaughter which was rendered against him on an indictment reading, in part, as follows:
“That one Amel Benoit and one Stanley Benoit * * * with force and arms, on or aboht the 16th day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, one Arcade Patin, in the peace and dignity of the state then and there being unlawfully, willfully, maliciously, feloniously and of their malice aforethought did then and there kill and murder him.”
Several bills were reserved to this indictment on the ground that it “does not with…
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