State v. Dreifus
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Balter, J. 1.If an officer is not competent to administer an oath in a criminal trial, objections should have been made at the time witnesses or jurors were offered to be sworn by such officer.
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APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Balter, J. 1.If an officer is not competent to administer an oath in a criminal trial, objections should have been made at the time witnesses or jurors were offered to be sworn by such officer. An accused will not be permitted to take the chances of an acquittal and failing of success secure a new trial by deferring action as to such officer’s incompetency until after conviction. 36Ann.20G; 37Ann.215; 3G Ann.864; Whar. Cr. P. and P. 801, 804, 876, 877. 2.A minute clerk of the Criminal District Court of Orleans parish is a…
1Opinion of the Court
Tlie opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
The accused prosecutes this appeal from a conviction of subornation of perjury, and a sentence to six years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary.
For a reversal of the judgment and discharge from the sentence, he relies upon several hills of exception, a motion for a new trial, and a motion in arrest of judgment.
In this court his counsel assign as error in the record and proceedings, that there is manifest error in that it appears from the record “that tlie perjury, for tlie subornation of which tlie defendant; was indicted, was perjury…
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