Case Name: The State of Louisiana vs. Filmore Butler et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1890-03
Citations: 42 La. 229
Docket Number: No. 10,555
Parties: The State of Louisiana vs. Filmore Butler et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 42
Pages: 229–230

Head Matter:
No. 10,555.
The State of Louisiana vs. Filmore Butler et als.
A motion in arrest of judgment by the principal convicted defendant, that the indictment charging his acquitted co-defendants as accessories is fatally defective, as they ought to have been prosecuted as principals, is quixotic and unworthy of notice.
A hill of exception to the ruling of the District Judge of a motion for a new trial, on the ground that tlic verdict is contrary to law and evidence, will not ho considered on appeal.
APPEAL from the Twenty-third District Court, Parish of Iberville. Talbot, J.
Walter H. Rogers, Attoxmey General, and Alex. Hebw't, District Attorney, for the State, Appellee.
* Charles A. Roxbw'ough for Defendants and Appellants.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Bermudez, O. J.
Butler was prosecuted for shooting with intent to murder; was convicted and sentenced to hard labor.
The other defendants, Oass and Scott, were indicted as accessories before the fact and acquitted.
Butler complained that the verdict .against him was contrary to-law and evidence, claiming a new trial.
He further complained that the indictment is fatally defective, in. this, that his co-defendants, prosecuted as accessories, should have-been indicted as principals, there being no accessories in law to the crime of shooting with intent to kill.
The District Judge overruled the motion for a new trial and that in arrest of judgment, and bills were reserved.
The bill to the denying of the motion for a new trial is not worth notice, and that to the overruling of the motion in arrest is altogether-unfounded.
What is it to Butler that his co-defendants, who were acquitted,, were or were not properly indicted? He can not be permitted to-champion any of the rights which they might have asserted and did not urge. They are satisfied with the result of their case. Butler's, complaint that his co-defendants were improperly indicted is simply quixotic.
Judgment affirmed. •