State v. West
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Dennis Miller, Judge. Israel West was convicted of murder, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
Defendant was charged with having murdered E. M. Browning on the 29th day of December, 1905.
He was indicted, and on the 2d day of February, 1906, he was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Before his arraignment, he filed a motion to quash the indictment, in which he averred that he is a negro, and that the man he was charged with having murdered was a white man; that there were no names of persons of his race in the jury box from which the grand jury was drawn that found a true bill against him, notwithstanding the fact that in the parish of Calcasieu there are over 2,000 persons of the…
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