State v. Romano
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans, Roman, J. 1, Points not formally assigned as errors on the record, though discussed in appellant's printed argument, will not be noticed.
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APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans, Roman, J. 1, Points not formally assigned as errors on the record, though discussed in appellant's printed argument, will not be noticed. There must be a written assignment iu criminal as well as in civil cases; and it must be filed before the case is submitted, or the right is waived. 12 A. 386 ; 10 A. 265, 2. The same act may, as to its character and tendencies, and the consequences it involved constitute an offense against both the State and Federal governments, and might draw to its commission the penalties denounced by…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Poché, J.
The defendant has taken this appeal from a conviction for counterfeiting coin of the United States. In his counsel’s brief, and for the first time, he suggests as a reason for the reversal of the judgment, “ that a state law punishing the counterfeiting of the current coin of the United States is contrary to the Federal Constitution, and the-court which undertakes to enforce such a law is without jurisdiction.”
His appeal comes without an assignment of errors, without a bill, of exception, without a plea in bar, and without a motion in arrest…
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- City of New Orleans v. DunlapSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1933