State v. Kane

The defendant, appellant, was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter.- The only question of law presented is whether the court was in session lawfully during the week in which the defendant was convicted. The question was presented by a motion to quash the regular venire of jurors drawn for service during that week; which motion was overruled, and to which ruling the defendant’s counsel reserved a bill of exceptions.

Judge R. M. Taliaferro, who is district judge for the Seventh judicial district, composed of the parishes of Catahoula and Concordia, was assigned to the Court of…