Case Name: STATE v. DAVIS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1913-12-01
Citations: 133 La. 495
Docket Number: No. 20,140
Parties: STATE v. DAVIS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 133
Pages: 495–495

Head Matter:
(63 South. 602.)
No. 20,140.
STATE v. DAVIS.
(Dec. 1, 1913.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Criminal Law (§ 1086*) — Appeal—Transcript — Reversal.
Where the transcript of appeal from a supposed conviction and sentence in a criminal prosecution fails to show an arraignment of the defendant and there is no attempt to prove that, in fact, there was such an arraignment, the conviction and sentence will be set aside and the case remanded.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2736-2769, 2770, 2772, 2794; Dee. Dig. § 1086.*]
Appeal from Thirtieth Judicial District Court, Parish of La Salle; George Wear, Sr., Judge.
Roland Davis, Jr., was convicted of larceny, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
T. W. Perrin and Flowers & Flowers, all of Jena, for appellant R. G. Pleasant, Atty. Gen., and S. L. Richey, Dist. Atty., of Jena (G. A. Gondran, of Donaldsonville, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
MONROE, J.
This purports to be an appeal from a conviction and sentence for larceny. Defendant has filed an assignment of errors, the first being that the record fails to show that he was ever arraigned. The state, through her prosecuting officers, concedes the point to be well taken, and asks that the case be remanded. There has been no attempt to prove that in fact there was an arraignment, and we are of opinion that the conviction and sentence should be set aside and the case remanded.
It is therefore adjudged and decreed that the conviction and sentence herein appealed from be set aside and that the case be remanded for further proceedings, according to law.