State v. Miller

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The defendant was convicted of shooting with intent to commit murder, and was sentenced to four years imprisonment at hard labor, and from this sentence appeals.

*1591. We find in tlie record a motion for a new trial. Besides the averment that the vei'dict of the jury was contrary to the law and evidence, the motion sets out. the incompetency of the jury by reason of the term of this court at which the accused was tried being a final term and not a jury term ; certain irregularities are charged in the orders of the judge calling the term and want of…