State v. Voorhies
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; James Simon, Judge. Peter Voorhies was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant was indicted for murder, tried, and, having been found guilty without capital punishment, was sentenced to the State Penitentiary for the term of his natural life.
Defendant has appealed from this sentence, but his counsel has filed in this court neither assignment of errors nor brief.
The record discloses a motion to quash the venire, a motion in arrest, and several bills of exception.
The motion to quash the venire sets up several grounds of objection, none of which were adverted to in the bill of exception to the overruling of the motion, except that the venire “had only been…
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