Legal Opinion

State v. Henderson

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 15, 1880No. 965PublishedCited by 6 opinions

APPEAL from the Eifth Judicial'District Court, parish of Richland. Richardson, J.

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

The defendant, having been tried, convicted, and sentenced in the Court a qua, takes this appeal and seeks to have the indictment quashed and the verdict and sentence reversed, on the grounds : that the grand jury, by which the indictment was found, was not drawn *780according to law, tliere not being fifty days intervening between the drawing and empaneling of such grand jury, as required by Act No. 41 of 1877, and that the Act No. 54 of 1880, in accordance with which the ¡said grand jury was drawn and empaneled without said intervening space of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Drake v. MahaneyMichigan Supreme Court · 1865

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State v. LivelySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
  2. State v. BreauxSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
  3. Browne v. Town of ProvidenceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
  4. Charity Hospital v. AxfordLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1930
  5. State v. SelsorSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1916

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