State v. Harwick
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Ouachita; Ben C. Dawkins, Judge. Mathew Harwich was indicted for a felonious assault and from a judgment of acquittal, the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The judge of the district court decided that Act 116 of 1912 is unconstitutional, for the reason that it embraces two objects, while, as he states, the title embraces one. Furthermore, that the act is null, because it does not denounce the offense as necessarily punishable at hard labor, and for that reason that it is not a felony.
Defendant does not urge objection to the title. The title relates to a felony by injuring or disfiguring or attempting to injure or disfigure any person with scalding hot water, carbolic acid, vitriol, nitric acid, nitrate of silver, or any other corrosive add or…
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