State v. Hamlet

LE BLANC, Justice.

On September 21", 1949 a Grand Jury for the Parish of Grant returned an indictment in the District Court for that Parish charging the defendant herein, J. E. Hamlet, Jr., with the crime of theft of eight head of. cattle of the value of $755, in violation of the provisions of Article 67 of the Code of Criminal Law and Procedure, LSA-RS 14.67. He was tried before a jury specially drawn, at a special term of Court which began on Monday, June 12, 1950. He was found “guilty of theft of property valued at the sum of $755.00” on June 14, 1950, whereupon his counsel gave notice to…