Case ID: la-ann_22/html/0162-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wyly, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2695.
    The State of Louisiana v. Henry Durbin.
    In criminal trials, all objections to the information or indictment of a strictly formal character must be urged before the jurors are sworn. Revised Statutes of 1855, section 91, page 177.
    APPEAL from Fifth District Court of East Baton Rouge. Posey, J.
    
      M. A. Pstevan, District Attorney, for the State. J. W. Burgess, and Pugua <& CalKham, for defendant aud appellant.
   Wyly, J.

Tho defendant has appealed from a judgment on tho verdict of a jury convicting Mm of the crime of robbery. He moved, in arrest of judgment, that the information, on which the proceeding is based, is invalid, because it “does not charge the defendant with any conversion or intent to convert the property which he is charged with robbing from Mrs. Clark to his own use.” The motion, was overruled, and the motion for new trial was overruled by the court; and the defendant, after being sentenced to- seven years’ confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary, took this appeal.

1 The information in this case appears to contain all the necessary averments to support the charge of robbery; the objection, if of any force, was merely a formal defect, which should have been made before the swearing in of the jurors and not afterwards. Acts 1855, § 91.

It is therefore ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, with costs.