Case Name: STATE OF LOUISIANA vs. COOK
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1840-10
Citations: 16 La. 287
Docket Number: 
Parties: STATE OF LOUISIANA vs. COOK.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 287–287

Head Matter:
STATE OF LOUISIANA vs. COOK.
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF NATCHITOCHES, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH DISTRICT PRESIDING.
There being no bill of exceptions or statement of facts, and the record not containing all the evidence, the appeal was dismissed.
There was judgment against the defendant as surety in a bail bond, given by one Abraham Anding, charged with having committed an assault and battery with the intent to kill.
The defendant obtained an appeal, and sent up the record, but in an imperfect state.
Morse and Roysden, for the appellant.
Ogden, District Attorney for the State,
asked for the dismissal of the appeal.

Opinion:
Martin J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendant is appellant from a judgment against him, as the bail of one Anding, on an indictment for assault and battery, he having failed to produce the body of his principal.
The certificate of the clerk states, that the record contains "a true and exact transcript of all the proceedings and documents on file in his office, and also, of all the evidence on file in said suit, (no parole evidence having been reduced to writing,) and that the bond, on which final judgment was rendered in said suit, has been lost."
There is no statement of facts or bill of exceptions in the record, and the certificate does not show that the record contains all the evidence on which the case was tried. We are consequently unable to examine the case on the merits.
The appeal must, therefore, be dismissed with costs.