State v. Chaney

The relator was convicted of the crime of attempting to commit arson, by setting fire to a dwelling house. The verdict was annulled by the district judge on a motion in arrest of judgment, because, having been arraigned, defendant had withdrawn his plea of not guilty in orcjer to file a motion to quash the indictment, and had not been rearraigned after his motion to quash was overruled. The judgment sustaining the motion in arrest was affirmed on appeal by the state. See State v. Chaney, 152 La. 347, 93 South. 119.

At the beginning of the trial in the district court, the defendant requested…