Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Charles CHAPMAN
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1933-01-03
Citations: 145 So. 527
Docket Number: No. 32151
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Charles CHAPMAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Southern Reporter
Volume: 145
Pages: 527–527

Head Matter:
176 La. 239
STATE of Louisiana v. Charles CHAPMAN.
No. 32151.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
Jan. 3, 1933.
B. D. Watkins, of Minden, W. Shearer Brown, of Muskogee, Okl., and Samuel E. Montgomery, of North Little Bock, Ark., for appellant.
G. L. Porterie, Atty. Gen. (James O’Connor, Asst. Atty. Gen., Eobert F. Kennon, Dist. Atty., of Minden, and James O’Niell, Sp. Asst, to Atty. Gen., of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
ODOM, J.
Defendant was convicted of the crime of robbery, and appealed. While the appeal was pending in this court, he broke jail and escaped, and, on the day fixed for the hearing of his appeal, he was a fugitive from justice. On that ground the state has moved to dismiss the appeal.
Article 54S of the Code of Criminal Procedure reads as follows: "If the appellant be a fugitive from justice on the return day or on the day for the hearing of his appeal, the appeal will be dismissed."
The state's motion to dismiss the appeal must prevail. The appeal is dismissed.