State v. Coudier

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Toud, J.

Tho defendant appeals from a sentence for manslaughter, condemning him to four years’ imprisonment at hard labor and to pay a fine of five dollars.

*2921. His first ground of complaint is tlie overruling of his challenge to the array of jurors.

The challenge was not made on the first day of term, as regulated by Act 44, of 1879, but the counsel for the accused contends that that act was not operative in the parish of Jefferson, but that a special act, being Act 37, of 1870, governed in criminal proceedings in that parish.

We think the Act of 1877,…