Legal Opinion
State v. Couvillion
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided November 26, 1906No. 16,331PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from Fourteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Avoyelles; Gregory Horatio Couvillon, Judge. Nestor Couvillion was indicted for crime. From an order quashing the writ, the state appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Defendant was indicted underAct 78, p. 101, of 1884, denouncing the crime of incest. The indictment was quashed on the ground that the .said statute did not apply to first cousins. The state has appealed..
The act of 1884 reads in part as follows:
“That whoever shall hereafter knowingly intermarry or cohabit without marriage, being within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriage is prohibited by articles 94 and 95 of the Revised Civil Code of the State of Louisiana, shall be deemed guilty of incest.”
It is conceded that this act at the date of its passage did not apply to first…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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