State v. Williams

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

Prom a judgment upon a conviction of murder without capital punishment the defendant appeals.

*362The jury-panel having been exhausted, talesmen were summoned, among whom was one Clavib who sat as a juryman. After the verdict was rendered the prisoner moved “to annul and set it aside,” or as the motion should have been termed, moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that Clavie was a convicted felon, having been sentenced in 1883 to six months confinement in the parish jail upon conviction of a criminal offence.

Without discussing the question…