State v. Soileau

The defendant, Robert Soileau, was indicted for murder and convicted of manslaughter. From this conviction and the sentence pronounced thereon defendant appeals. There are seven bills of exception in the record.

Bill No. 1. This bill was taken to the ruling of the trial judge refusing defendant permission to withdraw his plea of not guilty for the purpose of filing a motion to quash the indictment.

The motion to quash charges that the grand jury which returned the indictment was illegally constituted, in that one of its members, Charles Stewart, was a citizen of the Dominion of Canada and not…