State v. Sturgeon
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Franklin; D. N. Thompson, Judge. Leslie Sturgeon was convicted of forgery and of uttering and publishing forged instruments as true, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The defendant was prosecuted for forgery and uttering and publishing the forged instrument as true. Found guilty as charged by the jury, he was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary.
From the verdict and judgment, he appeals.
In a motion to quash and set aside the indictment, defendant alleged, in substance, that the grand jury which had found and presented the indictment against him was an illegal body by reason of the fact that the jury commission in drawing the grand and petit jury selected the 20 jurors (12 of whom constituted the grand jury by whom the indictment was found) from…
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