Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Pat POWELL and Mrs. Isaac McKeithen
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1929-01-02
Citations: 167 La. 577
Docket Number: No. 29623
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Pat POWELL and Mrs. Isaac McKeithen.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 167
Pages: 577–577

Head Matter:
(119 So. 879)
No. 29623.
STATE of Louisiana v. Pat POWELL and Mrs. Isaac McKeithen.
Jan. 2, 1929.
"William H. Mecom, of Columbia, for appellant.
Percy Saint,"Atty. Gen., and Harry Fuller, Dist. Atty., G. M. Wallace, Asst. Dist. Atty., both of Winnfield, and E. R. Schowalter, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
BRTJNOT, J.
Appellants were indicted, arraigned, tried, and convicted of the crime of assault with intent to murder. Each of the defendants was sentenced to serve a term in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. From the verdict and sentence both appealed.
There is no bill of exception or assignment of error in the record; no error is patent on its face, and defendants have not filed a brief in the ease. State v. Mann, 163 La. 477, 112 So. 304; State v. Hamilton, 164 La. 717, 114 So. 605.
There are no jurisdictional questions involved.
The minutes show that counsel for defendants excepted to the overruling of a motion for a new trial," but no bill was reserved to the ruling. State ex rel. Markham v. Read, 52 La. Ann. 271, 26 So. 826; State v. Evans, 135 La. 891, 66 So. 259; State v. Foster, 164 La. 840, 114 So. 696; State v. Cockerham, 165 La. 559, 115 So. 750.
The verdict and sentence are affirmed.