State v. Heywood

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

The State has appealed from a judgment quashing an indictment against the defendant, brought under act No. 64 of 1884 entitled, “An act to provide for the punishment of the offense and crime of malicious threatening or threats, the malicious sending of threatening letters or communications, of malicious publications, or resorting to malicious acts or threats of injury to person, reputation or property, though no valuable thing be. demanded or sought to bo extorted.”

The ground of the motion to quash is that the act in question is…