State v. Kavanaugh

HIGGINS, Justice.

The accused was charged in an indictment by the Grand Jury of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, on April 2, 1936, with having swindled and defrauded, on February 7, 1935, a widowed and inexperienced old lady (now deceased), who was living in a rural section of the parish, out of certain shares of stock valued at $13,000, which had been acquired by her through inheritance.

The defendant, on May 4, 1936, filed an exception on the ground that the venue of the crime was not within the territorial jurisdiction of the court. He also pleaded prescription, and filed a motion to quash, based…