Legal Opinion

State v. Doyle

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided November 15, 1915No. 21516PublishedCited by 8 opinions

Appeal from Fifteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Beauregard; Winston Over-ton, Judge. Crawford Doyle and others were convicted of cattle stealing, and appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.

The four defendants have appealed from a sentence for cattle stealing.

Defendants moved to quash the tales jury list drawn by the jury commission on the ground that there was a vacancy in said body, caused by the election of one of its members, J. W. Tooke, to the State Constitutional Convention of 1913, and his qualification and service as a member of said convention, and that the said Tooke, an outsider, unlawfully participated in said drawing. The judge below overruled the motion to quash, and the defendants thereupon took a bill of exceptions to the ruling.

[1] The judge a quo was of the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Sheboygan Co. v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1866
  2. State v. StarrSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1900
  3. State v. PhenixSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1914
  4. Winsley v. StateSupreme Court of Florida · 1915

3Cited by8 opinions

  1. State v. LinkletterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1977
  2. Board of Supervisors of Elections v. Attorney GeneralCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1967
  3. Forty-Second Legislative Assembly v. LennonMontana Supreme Court · 1971
  4. Harvey v. RidgewaySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1970
  5. State v. BatesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917

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