State v. Push
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from'the First District Court of the parish of Orleans.
1Opinion of the CourtHowe, J.
The defendant has appealed from a judgment by which he was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for the crime of forgery. The only point presented is by a bill of exceptions to the *15action of the judge below in sustaining a challenge for cause made ay the State to a juror who did not understand the English language, hut only German.
We do not think the court erred in excluding such a juror, and we find it difficult to imagine of what right or privilege the prisoner was deprived by such a ruling.
It is insisted oy counsel that the juror was a qualified and registered voter, and, as such, a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Gay v. ArdrySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840
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