Case ID: la-ann_21/html/0188-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Howe, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 2114.
    State of Louisiana v. James Redding.
    In a criminal case, not capital, ■whore a fine above three hundred dollars has not boon imposed, the appeal will bo dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Constitution, art. 14.
    from the Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston. jEllis, J.
    
      Bolivar Bdwards, District Attorney, for the State. G. I. Bradley, for defendant and appellant.
   Howe, J.

In this case the defendant was prosecuted for larceny, found guilty by the jury “ of trespass,” and sentenced “ to pay a flue of twenty-five dollars and costs, or twenty-five days in the common jail of the parish,” and has .appealed. By article 74 of the Constitution, this court has jurisdiction of criminal cases on questions of law only, whenever the punishment of death or imprisonment at hard labor, or a fine exceeding three hundred dollars, is actually imposed.

The court having no jurisdiction, it is ordered and adjudged that the appeal be dismissed with costs.