Case Name: The State vs. Sarrazin Baker
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1878-06
Citations: 30 La. 1134
Docket Number: No. 1011
Parties: The State vs. Sarrazin Baker.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 30
Pages: 1134–1136

Head Matter:
No. 1011.
The State vs. Sarrazin Baker.
The State has a right to ask the jurors in a criminal ease, whether they have conscientious scruples against finding a verdict which would entail capital punishment.
A witness in a criminal case may be recalled, even after he has been examined and cross-examined.
■On the trial of an accused for murder no specific act of the deceased, unconnected with tho killing, is admissible in evidence.
The crime of manslaughter is prescriptible in one year from its commission.
'The entering of a nolle prosequi by the State’s Attorney, on a motion to quash an indictment amounts to a voluntary abandonment of the prosecution, in which case the indictment will not have the effect of interrupting prescription.
APPEAL from the Sixteenth Judicial District Court, parish of Lafayette. Mouton, J.
Joseph A. Gharcjois, District Attorney, for the State.
M. E. Girard for defendant.

Opinion:
On Motion to Dismiss.
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Manning, C. J.
The State moves to dismiss this appeal for diminution of the record. The missing papers have been brought up in a supplemental transcript. The defendant would have the right to a certiorari to complete the record, but he has saved the Court and himself time in •supplying what is missing, and there is no pretence that these are not the papers which would come up in answer to a certiorari.
The motion to dismiss is denied.