Case ID: la-ann_48-2/html/1519-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Miller, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 12,253.
    State of Louisiana vs. Arthur Brooks et al.
    Tlie discharge by the court of a grand juror not qualified to serve, affords the accused no cause of complaint, the disqualified juror not participating in finding the indictment against the accused. Wharton’s Criminal Law; Staters. Causey, 43 An. 897.
    APPEAL from the Eleventh Judicial District Court for the Parish oi St. Landry. Dupré, J.
    
    
      M. J. Cunningham, Attorney General, and R. Lee Garland, District Attorney, for Plaintiff, Appellee.
    
      John N. Ogden for Defendant, Appellant.
    Submitted on briefs November 7, 1896.
    Opinion handed down November 16, 1896.
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The only question in this case of an appeal from the sentence of defendant for robbery is that arising by the exclusion of one of the grand jury directed by the lower court because the juror was ascertained not to be qualified to serve. He did not participate in the finding of the indictment.

It was the duty of the court to purge the jury of disqualified jurors, and no cause of complaint was thereby afforded the defendant. State vs. Causey, 43 An. 897, and State vs. Riez, ante, p. 1446.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the sentence of the lower court be affirmed.