Case Name: STATE v. LAWRENCE
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1909-06-14
Citations: 124 La. 378
Docket Number: No. 17,629
Parties: STATE v. LAWRENCE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 124
Pages: 377–379

Head Matter:
(50 South. 406.)
No. 17,629.
STATE v. LAWRENCE.
(June 14, 1909.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 6,1909.)
1. Constitutional Law .(§ 221*) — Drawing of Jury — Exclusion ' of Disreputable Negroes.
The fact that the jury commissioners select persons for service on juries with the aid of a city directory, from which are excluded only the names of negro nomads, living about barrel houses, in disreputable parts of the city, affords a defendant in a criminal prosecution, whether white or colored, no legal ground of complaint.
TEd. Note. — For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent. Dig. § 724; Dec. Dig. § 221;* Cent. Dig. Civil Riglits, § 5.]
2. Criminal Law (§ 1091*) — Appeal — Review of Evidence.
A bill of exception in a criminal case to the overruling of a motion for new trial, which deals entirely with the sufficiency of the evidence, presents nothing upon which this court can act.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Dec. Dig. § 1091.*]
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans; Joshua G. Baker, Judge.
Susie Lawrence was convicted of murder, and appeals.
Affirmed.
J. Q. Flynn, for appellant. Walter Guión, Atty. Gen., St. Clair Adams, Dist. Atty., and A. D. Henifiques, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for the State.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss Appeal.
MONROE, J.
Defendant, having been prosecuted for murder, was found "guilty, without capital punishment," and on April 2, 1909, was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor for life. On April 13th she applied for, and was granted, an appeal, and the transcript was lodged in this court on April 28th. On the following day the state filed a motion to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that it was not taken in time. The state relies on the provision of Act No. 108, p. 155, of 189.8, which reads:
"Section 1. That appeals to^the Supreme Court, in criminal cases, shall be taken, by motion or in writing, in open court, within three days after the sentence shall have been pronounced."
It is conceded that, if the three days thus referred to are to be regarded as judicial days, the appeal herein was taken in time; otherwise, that it was too late. The question thus presented was decided in the case of State v. Vicknair, 118 La. 969, 43 South. 635, where it was held, in effect, that the three days allowed by the statute are judicial days.
The motion to dismiss is, therefore, overruled.