Legal Opinion
State v. Smothers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided July 8, 1929No. 30000PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrunot, J.
The accused was indicted and tried for the crime of murder. The jury returned a qualified verdict, and the court sentenced’ the accused to confinement in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, at hard labor, •for life.- The appeal is from that verdict and sentence.
The record presents four bills of exception.
■ Bill No. 1 was reserved to the overruling of a motion to quash the indictment. The' motion is based upon alleged irregularities in the selection of the twenty names from which the grand jtíry that returned the indictment was drawn: It is admitted that the general venire box contained the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- State v. TaylorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
- State v. SimmonsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1891
- State v. McCarthySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
- State v. LoveSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
- State v. GreenSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1891
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3Cited by14 opinions
- Edgar Labat and Clifton Alton Poret v. Robert B. Bennett, Acting Warden, Louisiana State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- State v. DallaoSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
- State v. DowdySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1950
- State v. BussaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1932
- State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1943
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