Legal Opinion
State v. Cooper
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 30, 1966No. 48099PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice.
In this prosecution defendant Glenna Marie Cooper was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of ten years.
She first urges, as an error patent on the face of the record (R.S. 15:503, 510, 518, 560), that the indictment is fatally defective in that it does not charge a criminal homicide; and, in the alternative, that the indictment does not inform the accused of the nature and cause of the accusation against her as required by Article I, Sections 2, 9 and 10 of the Louisiana Constitution and the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Federal…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- State v. BarksdaleSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1964
- State v. BreedloveSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941
- State v. WestonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
- State v. StraughanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
- State v. SbisaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
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3Cited by25 opinions
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- State v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1966
- State v. ShafferSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
- State v. GladdenSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1972
- State v. LeeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
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