State v. Foster
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans. alcer, I. Whit- H. N. Ogden, Attorney-General, contended: That this court is without power to restrict the commissioners to any special method of procuring names, as the law is silent upon that subject. The truth is, .the whole subject matter of this bill is of fact, and not of law, and the decision of the judge below disposes of it. All of the other bills refer to matters of fact, not reviewable in this court.
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A PPEAL from the Superior Criminal Court, parish of Orleans. alcer, I. Whit- H. N. Ogden, Attorney-General, contended: That this court is without power to restrict the commissioners to any special method of procuring names, as the law is silent upon that subject. The truth is, .the whole subject matter of this bill is of fact, and not of law, and the decision of the judge below disposes of it. All of the other bills refer to matters of fact, not reviewable in this court. The motion in arrest of judgment upon the ground that “ the information does not charge that it was published with intent…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Spencer, J.
The defendants were convicted on an information for publishing as true a forged order for payment of money.
They have appealed, and have presented for our consideration three bills of exception.
The first bill relates to a challenge to the array of petit jurors on the grounds that at the time the names were drawn from the wheel it did not contain the names of not less than one thousand good and competent men, selected impartially from the citizens of the parish of Orleans having the qualifications to register as voters; but that said wheel did…
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