Case ID: la-ann_27/html/0297-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Taliaferro, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 5343.
    State of Louisiana v. William Evans.
    The coroner’s inquest being signed by the coroner and duly certified by him, the jurors having signed by making tlioir cross marks, and the whole being certified by the coroner who is a sworn officer, his certificate of the signatures 'of the jurors is sufficient.
    APPEAL from the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Terrebonne. Beattie, J. Criminal case.
    
      Thomas L. Winder, district attorney, for the State, appellee. Tobias Gibson, for defendant and appellant.
   Taliaferro, J.

The defendant was found guilty of the crime of murder and sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for life. He has appealed. On trial of the case the district attorney offered in evidence the coroner’s inquest held over the body of the deceased. It was objected to on the part of the defendant, on. the ground that the signatures of the pretended jurors was not verified as the law requires, the same having been made with a cross mart, and no witnesses thereto. The objection was overruled and a bill of exceptions reserved.

The coroner’s inquest was signed by the coroner, and duly certified to by him. The jurors signed by making their cross mark, and the whole was certified to by the coroner, who is a sworn officer. His certificate of the signatures of the jurors is sufficient.

Judgment affirmed.