State v. Slutz

Citations

• 106 La. 637

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus</p> <p>1. A bill of exceptions to the overruling of a motion for a new trial merely reciting the motion, its overruling and the reserving of a bill, is of no practical value.</p> <p>2. If a court commits errors in the course of a trial, they must be excepted to at the time, and bills of exception taken. Complaint of the same cannot be set up for the first time in a motion for a new trial.</p> <p>3. Where one of three parties charged with conspiracy is on trial separately from the others, the latter are competent witnesses for the State.</p> <p>4. An objection that no evidence is receivable under and in support of an indictment by reason of its insufficiency, is disposed of by a judgment of the Supreme Court, overruling a motion in arrest of judgment based on that contention and sustaining the indictment.</p> <p>5. It was not necessary that the court in pronouncing sentence against appellant should have used the words “it Is hereby adjudged and decreed that, etc.” Appellant was found guilty by the jury, the judgment, or sentence of the court confirmed it and carried it into execution. The judgment contained the usual recitals and followed the customary form.</p>