The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-16
THE COURTS.
United States Circuit COrrt,


| United States VS.. Tom Cummings, charged
with committing an assault upon Capt. Baker
while on the high seas, was released on his
| own reconizance
Oscar Boutte, for not appearing as juror,
had his fine reduced to s25.
| United Statesvs. A. J. Fleuriot ct al.-Judge
ment TOR defendant.
| The petit jury was dismissed until Thurs
| day, the 10th inst, at II A. NJ.
Superior Criminal Court.
VERDICT.
| State vs.. Mrs. Ceasaris, alias Maria WASH
ington, charged with grand larceny.-This
| case was tried Tuesday, but the jury fail
| ing to agree Tuesday evening, were locked up
for the night and returned into court yester-
day morning verdict of guilty.
MOTIONS.
John q. Castellanos, Esq, attorney for the
defense, filed motion in the case of the State
VS.. Manuel Orduna ct ais, requiring the
District Attorney to show cause why the said
case should not be Immediately set for trial,
as the accused has been in the Parish Prison
for some time past awaiting trial tr IN default
thereof that the prisoner be released on his
own recognizance. Fixed for Saturday, the
18Th.
State vs.. Officer james Fordyce, charged
with the killing of a colored man by the name
OF VIM. Forester, on Saturday, February 81,
1875, on Melpomene street, between Magnolia
and Clara streets.-A motion vas filed in this
case yesterday morning by Hugh ]. Campbell,
Esq, OF counsel for defense, to grant the in
dictment on the grounds
1. That the order of the Court under which
the Jury Commissioners drew the venire of
jurors from which the Grand Jury, which
found this Indictment, was selected, was not
made by the Judge OF the Superior Criminal
Court but by Geo. III. Braughn, Esq, an at
torney at law.
q That the sixteen Grand Jurors which
found the Indictment We're not selected by
A. A. Atocha, but were selected by the said
Geo. FL. Braughn, Esq, attorney at law.
3. That Geo. FL. Braughn, Esq, at the time
of the issuance OF the order aforesaid, and at
the time of the selection of the Grand Jury
aforesaid, was not pretending to act as Judge
of the said Superior. Criminal Court; by
virtue of any election to the said Office, or by
virtue of any executive appointment to fill the
vacancy in said Office, but was acting under
color of an order Of A. A. Atoeha, Judge of
said court, dated February 90, 1875; said
order having been issued under Sec 10 of
Act No 124, otthe General Assembly, approved
April g. 1874.
4. That the said order is unconstitutional
null and void, and is contrary to article 80 of
the Constitution of the State.
5. Even if said order of A. A. Atocha was
legal, the said Geo. Il. Braughn, at the time
he selected the Grand Jury which found this
had lot taken the oa of office,
which is required by article 100 OF the Con-
stitution of the State.
Whereupon defendant prays that this. his
challenge to the array of Grand Jurors which
found the indictment against him, be sus-
tanned, and that the said indictment be
quashed, and that he be discharged without
delay.
Judge Steele said: SIN view of the recent
decision of the Supreme Court, it is ordered
that the indictment be quashed, and the pris-
oner remanded to await the action of the
Grand Jury. Bail fixed at $500.
CONTINUED INDEFINITELY.
State VS.. Autote Jacquet, charged with kill |
ing an unknown white man at the corner of
White and Dumaine streets, in the Second |
on the evening of March 81 1873