Case Name: The State of Louisiana v. Valsin A. Fournet et al.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-11
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 564
Docket Number: No. 2524
Parties: The State of Louisiana v. Valsin A. Fournet et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 564–564

Head Matter:
No. 2524.
The State of Louisiana v. Valsin A. Fournet et al.
An appeal taken "by the State in a criminal case will be dismissed for want of jurisdiction, if the accused has not been sentenced with tlio penalty of death, nor imprisonment at hard labor, and a fine exceeding three hundred dollars has not been actually imposed. Constitution, Art. 74.
APPEAL from the First District Court of New Orleans. Abell, J.
8. Belden, Attorney General, for the State. A. SIL Voorldes and F. Fuselier, for defendants and appellees.

Opinion:
Taliaeerro, J.
The defendants being indicted for manslaughter moved to quash the indictment, on the ground that the court was without jurisdiction. The motion was sustained, the indictment quashed and the accused discharged,
From this ruling of the court a qua the State appeals.
A motion to dismiss the appeal is made, on the ground that this court has not jurisdiction of the case.
The motion must prevail. It is provided by article 74 of the constitution of 1868 that the jurisdiction of the court shall extend, "in criminal cases, to questions of law only, whenever the punishment of death, or imprisonment at hard labor, or a fine exceeding three hundred dollars, is actually imposed."
It is therefore ordered that this appeal be dismissed.