State v. Washington
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court, parish of Assumption. Knobloclc, J. j’irst — This Court cannot review a judgment refusing a new trial which was asked on the ground of newly discovered evidence. 21 An. 473 ; 22 An. 468. Second — Objection to the formation of the jury comes too late after going to trial. 8 R. 514 ; Sec. 5, Act No. 32 of 1840, p. 28. Rirst — That the list of jurors contemplated bylaw tobe served on the accused should embrace the names of…
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APPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court, parish of Assumption. Knobloclc, J. j’irst — This Court cannot review a judgment refusing a new trial which was asked on the ground of newly discovered evidence. 21 An. 473 ; 22 An. 468. Second — Objection to the formation of the jury comes too late after going to trial. 8 R. 514 ; Sec. 5, Act No. 32 of 1840, p. 28. Rirst — That the list of jurors contemplated bylaw tobe served on the accused should embrace the names of those only who could sit upon the trial, and not those of jurors drawn for a week different from that fixed for the trial,…
1Opinion of the Court
*897The opinion of the Oourt was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The errors assigned are the following:
1st. That the venire and list of jurors served on accused before trial was not such as the law requires, in this: that said list contained the names of the whole panel drawn for the term of court, including the grand jurors, the jurors who were to serve for the second week as well as those for the first week of the term, and also the jurors who had not been found.
The list served designated which jurors were on the Grand Jury, which ones had not been found, which ones were to serve for the first week, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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