State v. Pierre

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The defendant having been convicted of horse-steal*916ing, and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment at hard labor, prosecutes this appeal; and upon sundry bills of exceptions taken to the rulings of the trial judge, overruling his motion to quash, application for a continuance, and motion in arrest of judgment, etc., he relies for relief.

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The motion to quash the indictment assigns:

1st. That his name is Louis Victor, and not Joseph Jean Pierre, as stated therein.

2d. That section 814 of the Revised Statutes, under which he is indicted, has been…