State v. Desroche
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-first Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist. Rost, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Miller, J.
The defendants, sentenced for burglary, appeal, relying on various' exceptions.
There was a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that there was no authority to draw the jury, or hold the court for the term during which the prisoner was indicted and tried. The Act No. 152 of 1884 directed an increase of the terms of the country courts, and further provided for the order in which criminal and civil cases-should come before these terms. This involved changes which the act directed to be made by the district judges’and published. The law,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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