Case Name: STATE v. Booker ALLEN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1924-06-20
Citations: 156 La. 703
Docket Number: No. 26598
Parties: STATE v. Booker ALLEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 156
Pages: 704–704

Head Matter:
(101 South. 28)
No. 26598.
STATE v. Booker ALLEN.
(June 20, 1924.)
Appeal from Third Judicial District Court, Parish of Claiborne; J. E. Reynolds, Judge.
T. T. Land, of Shreveport, for appellant.
A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., and W. D. Golf, Dist. Atty., of Arcadia (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
By the WHOLE COURT.
BRUNOT, J.
The defendant was charged with manslaughter. He was tried, convicted of the crime charged, and was sentenced to not less than 18 months nor more than 3 years at hard labor, in the Louisiana state penitentiary. Erom this verdict and sentence he has appealed.
The only bill of exception presented for our consideration was reserved to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, based solely on the allegation that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence.
This court has repeatedly held that:
'A motion for a new trial, based solely upon the mere and unsupported allegation that the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence, presents nothing to the appellate court for review." State v. Bill Alexander, 99 South. 427; State v. Green, 43 La. Ann. 402, 9 South. 42; State v. Hobgood, 46 La. Ann. 855, 15 South. 406; State v. Barnes, 48 La. Ann. 460, 19 South. 251; State v. Jones, 112 La. 980, 36 South. 825; State v. Henderson, 113 La. 232, 36 South. 950; State v. Ferguson, 114 La. 70, 38 South. 23; State v. Labry, 124 La. 748, 50 South. 700; State v. Robertson, 133 La. 806, 63 South. 363.
There is no assignment of errors and there is ño apparent error in the record.
The verdict of the jury and the judgment and sentence appealed from are therefore affirmed.
155 La. 527.