State v. Stewart

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The defendant was indicted for murder, tried, con- ■ victed of manslaughter and sentenced to hard labor. His motion in arrest of judgment was sustained and the State appealed.

The defendant relies upon the motions to quash the iudictment, in *1165arrest of judgment, for a new trial, and several bills of exceptions to the rulings of the trial judge in the course of the trial.

The motion to quash the indictment assigns as reasons therefor that one member of the jury commissioners had not qualified by taking the required oath, and that if the…