State v. Atkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of De Soto; John H. Boone, Judge. Mrs. Charles Atkins was convicted of manslaughter, and she appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
The accused, Mrs. Charles Atkins, was tried for murder, was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to eight years at hard labor, and has appealed.
[1] She moved to quash the indictment, on *847the ground that the grand jury which found it had been illegally constituted, for the reason that the jury commissioners who had drawn the venire were no longer in office at the time they performed that function; an order having been made by the judge appointing other commissioners in their place.
The said order was made 'by the judge at his home in another parish on the day itself on which the venire was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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