State v. Lawrence

Citations

• 124 La. 378
• 50 So. 406
• 1909 La. LEXIS 471

Syllabus

<p>1. Constitutional Law .(§ 221*) — Drawing of Jury — Exclusion ' of Disreputable Negroes.</p> <p>The fact that the jury commissioners select persons for service on juries with the aid of a city directory, from which are excluded only the names of negro nomads, living about barrel houses, in disreputable parts of the city, affords a defendant in a criminal prosecution, whether white or colored, no legal ground of complaint.</p> <p>2. Criminal Law (§ 1091*) — Appeal — Review of Evidence.</p> <p>A bill of exception in a criminal case to the overruling of a motion for new trial, which deals entirely with the sufficiency of the evidence, presents nothing upon which this court can act.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>