Case ID: la_156/html/0676-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LECHE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(101 South. 18)
    No. 26599.
    STATE v. BURCH.
    (June 20, 1924.)
    
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    Appeal and error @=»553(1) — Mere note In minutes of defendant’? reservation of bill for new trial held not to present any question for review.
    Mere note in court’s minutes that defendant reserved a bill for a new trial, which was applied for solely on the ground that verdict was contrary to law and evidence, does not present any question of law requiring review, in the absence of formal bill of exceptions drawn up or signed by judge.
    Appeal from Third Judicial District Court, Parish of Claiborne; J. E. Reynolds, Judge.
    Willie Burch was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Thomas T. Land, of Shreveport, for appellant.
    A. Y. Coco, Atty. Gen., and W. D. Goff, Dist. Atty., of Arcadia (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
   By the WHOLE COURT.

LECHE, J.

The defendant in the above cause was indicted for murder and was found guilty of manslaughter. He was sentenced to hard labor for a period of not less than 18 months nor more than 3 years.

The record shows that he applied for a new trial on the ground that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence. The motion for a new trial was overruled, and, while a minute entry shows that defendant reserved a bill to that ruling, no formal bill of exceptions was drawn up or signed by the judge.

Defendant, although represented by counsel, made no appearance in this court.

A mere note in the minutes that a defendant reserves a bill for a new trial, which was applied for solely on the general ground that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence, does not present any question of law requiring review by this court.

The proeedings appear to have been regular and according to law, and, finding no error therein, '

It is ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed.