State v. Gendusa

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The Grand Jury for the Parish of Orleans returned an indictment against Peter Gendusa, a white man, and John Beecham, a negro man, reading as follows, viz.:

"The Grand Jurors of the State of Louisiana duly impaneled and sworn in and for the body of the Parish of Orleans, in the name and by the authority of said State, upon their oath, present that one Peter Gendusa and one John Beecham, each, late of the Parish of Orleans, on the seventeenth day of July in the…