Case Name: The State vs. Jo. Robinson alias Dago Jo
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 69
Docket Number: No. 6479
Parties: The State vs. Jo. Robinson alias Dago Jo.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 69–70

Head Matter:
No. 6479.
The State vs. Jo. Robinson alias Dago Jo.
The article oi the Constitution of Louisiana, which provides that prosecutions shall be by indictment or information, is not in conflict with the Federal Constitution forbidding any one to be held to answer for an infamous crime unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, as the latter relates to and governs criminal prosecutions in the Federal courts alone.
Appeal from the Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans. Steele, J.
H. N. Ogden, Attorney-C-eneral, for the State. Dalton for the Defendant.

Opinion:
Spencer, J.
The district attorney of the First District, filed in the Superior Criminal Court, in due form, an information against the defendant for " breaking and entering a store in the night time with intent to steal." Defendant was tried and convicted of said crime, and after motion in arrest was overruled,' was sentenced to five years at hard laboi. lie appeals and relies solely upon his said motion in arrest of judgment, which' is, that by. the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States it is provided, that no person shall beheld to answer for a capital or infamous crime, unless on the presentment or indictment of a grand j ury.
His counsel admits that Art. G of the Constitution of Louisiana authorizes prosecutions, in cases like the present, by information; but contends that the State Constitution is in conflict with the Federal and must yield.
It is only necessary to say that it is now considered elementary that the said provision in the Constitution of the United States refers to and governs only proceedings in the Federal courts.
Judgment affirmed.