Case ID: la-ann_25/html/0369-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Ludeling, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 3958.
    State of Louisiana v. William H. Hardin.
    Whore a "bill of exceptions was taken to the ruling of the judge a quo. refusing to permit evidence to he offered, on the trial of a motion in arrest of judgment, to prove that one of tlie jurors was an unnaturalized alien ;
    Held — That said ruling was correct. Sucli motions must be based on errors patent on tbe face of tbe record. Besides, tbe juror having been accepted, tbe defendant could not, after conviction, complain of .tbe want of qualification in tbe juror.
    APPEAL from the Tenth Judicial District Court, parish of Caddo. Levisee, J. Criminal case.
    
      James 8. Ashton, District Attorney, for the State. Leonard & Seott, for defendant.
   Ludeling, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment sentencing thedefondant to imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for the-term of one year.

There is only one bill of exceptions in the record. It is taken to the-ruling of the judge, refusing to permit evidence to be offered, on the trial of a motion in arrest of judgment, to prove that one of the jurors was an unnaturalized alien. The ruling ,was correct. Such motions-must be based on errors patent on the face of the record. Besides, the juror having been accepted, the defendant could not, after conviction,, complain of the want of qualification in the juror.

Judgment affirmed.