State v. Fontenot
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District ■Court, Parish of St. Landry; Edward Taylor Lewis, Judge. Yves Fontenot and another were convicted •of a crime. Defendant Zack Fontenot appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, C. J.
The defendant Zack Fontenot, charged under an information with having feloniously, willfully, and maliciously set fire to and attempted to burn a lot of wooden box seats of a certain merry-go-round ■outfit belonging to Alexander Hardesty, with intent thereby to injure the said Alexander Hardesty, was convicted and sentenced to the State Penitentiary for the space of one year.
He moved in arrest of judgment on the ground that the information under which he was tried and convicted did not set forth any ■crime known to the laws of Louisiana. He urges under…
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