Case ID: la-ann_20/html/0389-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Labauve, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 1483.
    The State of Louisiana v. Thomas Behan.
    The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, in criminal cases, is limited to questions of law alone, and must be presented by bill of exceptions or assignment of errors.
    APPEAL from the First District Court of New Orleans, Abell, J.
    
      B.L. Lynch, Attorney General, for State.
    
      A. P. Field, for defendant and-appellant.
   Labauve, J.

The defendant was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced by the lower court to fifteen years’ imprisonment at hard labor, in the State Penitentiary.

He took this appeal.

The record contains neither bill of exceptions, nor assignment of errors apparent on the face of the record.

Our appellate jurisdiction, in criminal cases, is limited to questions of law alone. These questions must be presented by bill of exceptions or assignments of errors; or the errors be apparent on the face of the record.

No counsel has appeared in this court, on the part of the appellant, to suggest any error of law, and we have found none after a careful examination of the record.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.