State v. Robinson

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

A Lunacy Commission was appointed to examine into the present sanity of the accused, Dan E. Robinson, charged by indictment for the murder of Elnora Dorsey, and after due hearing, was adjudged to be “presently insane” and was ordered to be confined1 in East Louisiana State Hospital, from which ruling he prosecutes this appeal.

In disposing of a motion by the State of Louisiana to dismiss the appeal2, we recognized that under the law prevailing in this state 3, the bills of exception reserved by the accused were neither submitted to the trial judge nor signed by him…