State v. McCrystol
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Lx Marr, J. A tales juror is a petit juror, and is covered by the provisions of Act Xo. 59 of 1878, Act 59 ofIS7S; 38 An. 481; Act Xo. 98 of 1880, Section 5; Act No. 138 of 1877, Kx-Sossion; Act No. 54 of 1888, Section 3; (! Wallace, 395; 108 Massachusetts Reports, page 21. Sogwick on Statutory and Constitutional Raw, second edition, pages 282, 287 and 289. 41 An. 3.38.- Act Xo. 59 of 1878 does not apply…
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A PPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Lx Marr, J. A tales juror is a petit juror, and is covered by the provisions of Act Xo. 59 of 1878, Act 59 ofIS7S; 38 An. 481; Act Xo. 98 of 1880, Section 5; Act No. 138 of 1877, Kx-Sossion; Act No. 54 of 1888, Section 3; (! Wallace, 395; 108 Massachusetts Reports, page 21. Sogwick on Statutory and Constitutional Raw, second edition, pages 282, 287 and 289. 41 An. 3.38.- Act Xo. 59 of 1878 does not apply merely to jurors actually impanelled and sworn to try a particular case, but to all jurors liable to jury service, from the…
1Opinion of the Court
*910The opinion of the court was delivered by
Fenner., J.
The defendant was tried and convicted under an information charging him with the offence of ‘ ‘ offering and attempting to bribe” a certain tales juror drawn and summoned to serve in the cause of the State vs. Natalie et al., better known as the Hennessey murder case. The offence is statutory, and is defined and punished by Act 59 of 1878.
The second section of that Act denounces the offence of actually bribing any of the officers enumerated therein, including any “ grand or petit juror," and it defines the offence as follows: to “ directly…
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