Legal Opinion

State v. Jackson

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 15, 1892No. 10,950PublishedCited by 6 opinions

APPEAL from the Thirteenth District Court, Parish of St. Landry. Lewis, J. _

1Opinion of the Court

*161The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The defendant was indicted for murder, tried and found guilty without capital punishment, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life, from which judgment he has appealed.

The first bill of exceptions was taken on the refusal of the trial judge to allow the following question to be propounded to a witness: “ Was Ivory Guidry, the deceased, a man capable of carrying ■out such threats.”

The trial judge, in his statement appended to the bill, says: “That the accused shot the deceased down in the public road and without even the slightest…

2Cited by6 opinions

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  2. National Surety Co. v. Oklahoma Nat. Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1917
  3. State v. GardnerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
  4. State v. CraftSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
  5. State v. ApleyNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1913

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