State v. Walsh
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. * Moise, J. 1. The requirements of Act No. 138 (E. S.) of 1877, that the judge shall enter an order upon the minutes directing the criminal sheriff, whenever in the opinion of the judge, in a case fixed for trial, talesmen will be required to draw such number of jurors as in the opinion of the court may be necessary to complete the jury, is fully satisfied when the order is entered on the minutes, under the…
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APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. * Moise, J. 1. The requirements of Act No. 138 (E. S.) of 1877, that the judge shall enter an order upon the minutes directing the criminal sheriff, whenever in the opinion of the judge, in a case fixed for trial, talesmen will be required to draw such number of jurors as in the opinion of the court may be necessary to complete the jury, is fully satisfied when the order is entered on the minutes, under the direction of the presiding judge, by the minute clerk, and the minutes are approved and signed by the judge. Century…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Breaux, J.
The defendants having been tried on the charge of murder, and convicted without capital punishment, were sentenced to suffer imprisonment at hard labor for life.
From the verdict and judgment they appealed.
Their grounds of complaint are set out in a challenge to the array of tales jurors, a motion for a new trial and fourteen bills of exceptions.
The motion for a new trial was tendered ex industria, for it reiterates the grounds reserved in the bills, and contains no other or different matter requiring the court’s consideration.
The court having…
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