Case ID: so2d_328/html/0120-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Mariah PALMER.
    No. 56188.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Sept. 5, 1975.
    On Rehearing Feb. 23, 1976.
    Rehearing Denied March 26, 1976.
    William J. Guste, Jr, Atty. Gen, L. J. Hymel, Jr, Barbara Rutledge, Walter L. Smith, Jr, Asst. Attys. Gen, Ronald C. Martin, Dist. Atty, John S. Stephens, Asst. Dist. Atty, for plaintiff-appellant.
    C. R. Whitehead, Jr, Whitehead & McCoy, Natchitoches, for defendant-appel-lee.
   CALOGERO, Justice.

Defendant Mariah Palmer was indicted for bribery of voters in violation of La.R. S. 14:119. For the reasons assigned in State v. Newton, La, 328 So.2d 110, decided this day, the trial court’s action in declaring the statute constitutionally infirm and its action in quashing the indictment is hereby affirmed.

SANDERS, C. J., and SUMMERS and MARCUS, JJ., dissent.

ON REHEARING

SANDERS, Chief Justice.

For the reasons assigned in State of Louisiana v. Newton, La., 328 So.2d 110, decided this day, the judgment of the district court is reversed; the motion to quash the indictment is overruled; and the case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the views therein expressed.

TATE, DIXON and CALOGERO, JJ., dissent.

DENNIS, J., concurs for the reasons stated in State v. Newton, La., 328 So.2d 110, decided this day.