State v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tlie Third District Court, Parish of Lincoln. Barlcsdale, J. 1. There is no'law requiring verdicts to be in writing. 8 U., 31 Ann. 96; 32 Ann. 854; 33 Ann. 1414. 2. The law does not require jurors to be philologists. All that law requires is their ability to appreciate the facts and to apply the law.
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APPEAL from tlie Third District Court, Parish of Lincoln. Barlcsdale, J. 1. There is no'law requiring verdicts to be in writing. 8 U., 31 Ann. 96; 32 Ann. 854; 33 Ann. 1414. 2. The law does not require jurors to be philologists. All that law requires is their ability to appreciate the facts and to apply the law. "When they have done that and expressed their sense in an intelligible and unequivocable form the law is satisfied. 31 Ann. 96; 32 Ann. 854; 33 Ann. 855. 3. A written verdict badly spelled, which would otherwise leave its true meaning in doubt, has all its doubts removed, and is…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
The indictment charges that the defendant did “feloniously and of his malice aforethought, with a dangerous weapon, to wit, a pistol, shoot J. W. Davis, with intent to kill and murder him.’
Having been tried, convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, he has appealed, and rests his claim to relief on two hills of exception, a motion in arrest of judgment, and an assignment of error in this Court.
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After conviction the accused claimed a new trial on the ground that the jury had been guilty of misconduct, to his prejudice, in…
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