Case ID: la-ann_37/html/0311-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Poems, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 9327.
    The State of Louisiana vs. Robert Williams alias “Blinkey Bob.”
    This is an appeal from a conviction of murder and a sentence of death, in which the record «•ontains no plea oi proceeding within the province of the Supreme Court in criminal matters, and is not even supported by a brief of counsel for the appellant.
    The habit among certain members of the bar, of taking appeals in capital criminal cases,, and not following them up, is to be deprecated,
    APPEAL from the Criminal District Court for the parish of Orleans.. Soman, J.
    J/'. J. Cunningham, Attorney General, and Lionel Adams, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
    
      F. J>. Kavhuvt for Defendant and Appellant.
   The. opinion of the Court iva.s delivered by

Poems, J.

Tliis appeal, which is taken from a conviction of murder and a sentence of death, presents a record barren of any plea or proceeding which we are authorized to review under our limited jurisdiction in criminal matters.

A thorough examination of the record fails to disclose any plea in bar, motion to quash, bill of exception or motion in arrest of judgment, and it has satisfied us that the accused has had a fair and impartial trial, during which all the modes of proceeding, and other forms prescribed by law, have been observed with commendable regularity and precision.

Under such a showing, the defendant could surety expect no relief at our hands.

That circumstance was doubtless tlie reason which deterred his counsel from even filing a brief in his behalf.

We are constrained to note the growing habit among certain members of the bar, of taking appeals in important criminal cases, and of giving no further attention to the same.

The habit must be seriously deprecated.

Judgment affirmed.

Rehearing refused.