State v. Pruett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Eleventh Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Landry. Dupré, J. Statement of Case. Defendant was indicted for murder, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. Prom this verdict and sentence he has appealed, presenting a number of bills of exception for review.
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Appeal from the Eleventh Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Landry. Dupré, J. Statement of Case. Defendant was indicted for murder, found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in the State penitentiary. Prom this verdict and sentence he has appealed, presenting a number of bills of exception for review. Tne first bill is reserved to the overruling a motion to quash the indictment, on three grounds; first, because the list or venire from which the grand jury was drawn was not published; secondly, because one of the jury commissioners was a deputy United…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
The action of the court in overruling defendant’s motion to quash the indictment was not erroneous. The motion was made too late. The facts disclosed by the evidence adduced bring the present case within the doctrine announced in State vs. Collins, 48 An. 1454. The jury drawn in this case was through the proviso of the repealing clause of Act No. 99 of 1896, withdrawn from the provisions of the fifth section of that act requiring publication.
The ninth, tenth and eleventh bills of exception reserved by de*290fendant are the first which we…
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