Case ID: la-ann_51/html/0159-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Miller, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 12,913.
    The State of Louisiana vs. Frank M. Robertson.
    Syllabus.
    When the accuseil is at large, having escaped from custody, his appeal from the sentence will not entitle Rim to a Rearing on the appeal, and it will be dismissed.
    ON APPEAL from the Fourth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jackson. Machen, J.
    
    
      M. J. Cunningham, Attorney General, and A. B. Hundley, District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Appellee.
    
      Price & Edwards for Defendant and Appellant.
    Submitted on brief November 26, 1898.
    Opinion handed down January 23, 1899.
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Miller, J.

The accused, convicted of mansluaghter, takes this appeal from the sentence.

We have no brief on behalf of the accused, explained, we presume, by the motion to dismiss, based on the escape from jail of the accused pending the appeal, shown by the affidavit of the sheriff accompanying the motion. The accused still at large, cannot be heard in support of his appeal.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the appeal herein be dismissed.