Case ID: la-ann_37/html/0785-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Todd, J. Manning, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 149.
    The State of Louisiana vs. Anderson Day.
    A conviction ior inflicting a wound less than mayhem is not responsive to the charge in an; indictment of cutting with intent to murder. The variance between the charge and the verdict is fatal.
    Parish of East Carroll. APPEAL from the Eighth District Court, . Deloney, J. -
    
      J. JE. BanscLeM, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
    Defendant and Appellant unrepresented.
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The defendant was charged by information with cutting-one John Cullen with a razor with intent to murder, under Sec. 791r R. S.

He was convicted of inflicting a wound less than mayhem, an offense denounced by Sec. 794, R. S.

He appeals to this Court, and assigns as error that the verdict was not responsive to the charge and that the variance between the two-was fatal.

There have been frequent adjudications by this Court upon this point, and upon the authority of the same the assignment must be sustained. State vs. Murdock, 35 A., 729; State vs. Pratt, 10 A., 191; State vs. Johns, 32 A., 812.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the verdict of the jury and the sentence thereon be annulled, avoided and reversed, and the accused discharged. -

Dissenting Opinion.

Manning, J.

I dissent for the reasons set out in my dissenting, opinion in the Murdock case.