Case Name: State of Louisiana vs. Thomas Broussard
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1902
Citations: 108 La. 600
Docket Number: No. 14,493
Parties: State of Louisiana vs. Thomas Broussard.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 600–601

Head Matter:
No. 14,493.
State of Louisiana vs. Thomas Broussard.
Syllabus.
WEere an accused Is charged with the larceny of property which may be the subject of that offense, and is found guilty as charged, motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment, predicated on the ground that the offense proved on the trial was “severing from the soil,” but unaccompanied by any bills of exception or by the evidence relied on, present no question of law for the consideration of this court.
APPEAL from the Seventeenth Judicial District, Parish of Vermilion — jGordy, Jr., J.
Walter Guión, Attorney General, and J. Nelson Greene, District Attorney (Lewis Guión, of Counsel), for Plaintiff, Appellee.
S. P. Watts, for Defendant, Appellant.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Monroe, J.
The defendant in this case was tried, convicted, and sentenced upon the charge, that he did, on or about the 6th day of September, 1900, "unlawfully, wilfully, and feloniously, take, steal and carry away two sacks of com of the value of one dollar and the property of one Baptiste Gilbert." A motion for new trial was made on the ground, that the evidence .adduced showed "that the com which was stolen was on the stalks," and the only "conviction in this case that would conform to the facts would be under a charge of "severing from the soil," with allegations of the ownership of the realty incorporated therein. In overruling this motion, as also a motion in arrest, the judge a quo says, "that the court considered that the evi- " dence before the jury justified them in returning a verdict of guilty, " against the accused, the evidence showing that the accused was seen, " in the night time, carrying ,a sack of corn out of the field of the " injured party, and he, the accused, immediately, became a fugitive " from justice, and evaded arrest for a period of nearly a year. As to "the motion in arrest of judgment, the facts before the jury, to my "mind, did not establish severance from the soil; the proof, as above "stated, was, the accused was caught, with the sack of com on his " back, going out of the field."
There is no question of law presented, and the judgment appealed from is affirmed.
Eehearing refused.