Legal Opinion

State v. Push

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided January 15, 1871No. 2924PublishedCited by 3 opinions

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

  1. Gay v. ArdrySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. State v. McClearNevada Supreme Court · 1876
  2. State v. PrattSupreme Court of Kansas · 1923
  3. Sutton v. FoxWisconsin Supreme Court · 1882

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