State v. Shoemake
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eifth Judicial District Court, Parish of ’Winn; Cas Moss, Judge. George Shoemake was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The accused was convicted, without capital punishment, of having murdered one Mrs. Jesse Roberts.
He objected to the juror E. H. Buchanan, on the ground that his name did not appear on the venire list, that the name appearing was E. A. Buchanan, and that the person intended to be designated thereby was more probably E. A. Buchan than E. I-I. Buchanan, because a person by the former name had lived in ward 4 a great many years and had but recently moved to ward 7. The learned trial judge was satisfied that E. H. Buchanan was the right man, a conclusion we find no reason for doubting the…
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