State v. Bagneris

SIMON, Justice.

In this case, Louis Bagneris and twenty-eight other persons are here charged in one bill of indictment returned by the Grand Jury on February 12, 1958, with the crime of conspiracy to commit public bribery as denounced by LSA-R.S. 14:26 1. It cannot be disputed that these defendants are identified and classified as members of the New Orleans Police Department, known gamblers, and intermediaries serving between these two groups.

The offense of criminal conspiracy to commit public bribery is alleged to have occurred between January 1, 1949 and June 30, 1955, and the indictment,…