State v. Williams

Relator was charged with “shooting with intent to kill,” on the 24th of July, 1903. His cause was heard. The presiding judge of the Criminal Court, Section B, of the parish of Orleans, sentenced him to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for two years.

On the day that he was sentenced relator took a suspensive appeal from the judgment and sentence pronounced against him. The record informs us that the transcript of the appeal is on file in the clerk’s office of the Supreme Court.

This court has recently decided that an accused not sentenced to serve at hard labor in the penitentiary…