State v. Boasso
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. AJL Roman, J. 1. In any indictment for forging or uttering any instrument, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same shall be usually known. R. S. Sec. 1049. The marriage certificate or act is required by the Civil Code. Art. 105. Justices of the peace are authorized to celebrate marriages within their respective parishes.
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A PPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. AJL Roman, J. 1. In any indictment for forging or uttering any instrument, it shall be sufficient to describe such instrument by any name or designation by which the same shall be usually known. R. S. Sec. 1049. The marriage certificate or act is required by the Civil Code. Art. 105. Justices of the peace are authorized to celebrate marriages within their respective parishes. C. C. Art. 103. The judges of the city courts replace the justices of the peace within the city of 2sTew Orleans, and are judicial officers exercising…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Manning, J.
The indictment contained two counts, first forging a certificate of marriage, and second for publishing as true such forged certificate, and there was a conviction of both. The State entered a nol. pros, of the first and the prisoner was sentenced upon the second to imprisonment at hard labour for fourteen years.
There was a motiou to quash on the ground that the pretended marriage certificate cannot in law be the subject of forgery, because it is invalid on its face and void of legal effects, the invalidity and want of legality being that…
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