State v. Hutchinson

The defendant was charged with and convicted of grand larceny.

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In this state the term felony means:

“A crime of great magnitude and subject to an infamous punishment — death or imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary.” State v. Cazeau, 8 La. Ann. 109, 114; State v. Lartigue, 6 La. Ann. 404, 405.

And, in that sense, it has been well known to us even from territorial times. State v. Rohfrischt, 12 La. Ann. 382, 383. Cf. Act No. 137 of 1896, § 44, p. 204. In that sense also it is synonymous with “high crime,” as distinguished from “misdemeanor”; with crime triable by jury and appealable of…