Case ID: la_135/html/0380-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PROVOSTY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(65 South. 548)
    No. 20620.
    STATE v. JAMES.
    (June 8, 1914.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Burglary (§ 28*) — Indictment—Evidence-Necessity.
    Under an indictment charging a breaking and entry into a railroad car of a specified railroad company, a corporation, with intent to commit larceny, the state need not prove that the company is a corporation.
    [Ed. Note. — Por other cases, see Burglary, Cent. Dig. §§ 67-78; Dec. Dig. § 28.*]
    Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; T. F. Bell, Judge.
    Charley James was convicted of crime, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    John F. Phillips, of Shreveport, for appellant. R. G. Pleasant, Atty. Gen., and W. A. Mabry, Dist. Atty., of Shreveport (G. A. Gondran, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
   PROVOSTY, J.

The accused having been convicted upon the charge of having in the daytime broken and entered into a railroad car, the property of the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company, a corporation, with felonious intent to steal the goods in said car, has appealed, and relies for reversal upon the refusal of the trial judge to give the following special charge:

“Before you can find the accused guilty as charged in this indictment, the state must prove the existence of such a corporation.”

In State v. Accardo, 129 La. 666, 56 South. 631, where the indictment had failed to allege that the Texas & Pacific Railroad Company was a corporation, this court held the omission to have been unimportant. The same thing can be said in this case of the unimportance of proving’ that the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company is a corporation. See, as to the allegation of incorporation being unnecessary, 12 Ency. of Pl. & Prac. 973; 25 Cyc. 95; 10 Ency. Pl. & Prac. 509; State v. Harris, 42 La. Ann. 980, 8 South. 530; State v. McDuffy, 131 La. 695, 60 South. 80.

Judgment affirmed.