State v. Boylston
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge. W. H. Boylston was indicted for embezzlement, a motion to quash the indictment was sustained and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant was indicted for embezzling, for the use of one J. R. Brown, the money of a certain state branch bank, contrary to paragraph 7 of section 1 of Act 189 of 1902.
Defendant first moved to quash the indictment on the ground that it set forth no crime or offense known to the laws of the state of Louisiana.
Defendant then, without abandoning said motion, moved to quash the indictment on the further ground that Act 189 of 1902, particularly the seventh paragraph, is unconstitutional and void, for the reason that said act does not express the object in its title, as required by the…
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