Legal Opinion
State v. Warner
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided December 10, 1906No. 16,377PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; Philip Sidney Pugh, Judge. John Warner was convicted of burglary and larceny, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
On an indictment against defendant for burglary and larceny, in separate counts, the jury brought in a verdict,expressed by the single word, “Guilty.” De*939fendant moved in arrest of judgment on the following grounds:
“That the verdict in this ease was insensible, and no valid or legal judgment could be based thereon, for the reason that the accused was charged in separate counts with burglary and larceny in the same indictment, and the verdict of the jury as rendered and recorded was simply guilty, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court.
“That the general verdict of guilty left it wholly…
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