Legal Opinion
State v. Wells
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided June 28, 1940No. 35822PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’NIELL, Chief Justice.
This case and the case No. 35821, 197 So. 419, having the same title, and decided today, are companion cases. In this case the defendant was charged in three counts in a bill of information with the crime called misprision of felony. The statute which denounces the crime and on which the bill of information is founded is Section 856 of the Revised Statutes, which provides:
“Sec. 856. If any person having knowledge of the commission of any crime punishable with death, or imprisonment at hard labor, shall conceal and not disclose it to some committing magistrate or…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- United States v. LombardoSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Bratton v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1934
- United States v. CommerfordCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1933
- Rumely v. McCarthySupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- State v. BaurensSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
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3Cited by5 opinions
- State v. HayesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2003
- State v. BrelandSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
- State v. ColbertLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2006
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