State v. Hopkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Clay Elliott, Judge. Minnie Hopkins was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The defendant, Minnie Hopkins, was charged with the murder of Isaac Moore on the 22d day of April, 1906, by the grand jury of Tangipahoa, at the general term of the court in that year.
Her trial began and ended on the 11th day of June of the same year.
She was found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to serve 15 years in the penitentiary.
*101She, through her counsel, reserved four bills of exceptions.
The first was taken to the court’s ruling admitting in evidence the certificate of death of Isaac Moore at the Charity Hospital in New Orleans, signed by Dr. S. J. Mioton, assistant coroner of the…
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