The Southern Reporter, Volume 5West Publishing Company, 1889 |
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... application for a mandamus herein be refused , with costs . ( 40 La . Ann . 719 ) STATE v . HENDRICKS et al . ( Supreme Court of Louisiana . August 27 , 1888. 40 La . Ann . ) 1. PLEADING - SPECIAL PLEA - EFFECT . A defendant who files a ...
... application for a mandamus herein be refused , with costs . ( 40 La . Ann . 719 ) STATE v . HENDRICKS et al . ( Supreme Court of Louisiana . August 27 , 1888. 40 La . Ann . ) 1. PLEADING - SPECIAL PLEA - EFFECT . A defendant who files a ...
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... application for a new trial was made on the grounds , viz .: First , that while the trial was in progress , and after some of the jurors had been sworn , one of them held a whispered conversation with a person not connected with the ...
... application for a new trial was made on the grounds , viz .: First , that while the trial was in progress , and after some of the jurors had been sworn , one of them held a whispered conversation with a person not connected with the ...
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... application for a continuance ; and ( 3 ) in allowing certain testimony . The motion to quash rests upon the ground that the district attorney was pres- ent before the grand jury during a part of the examination of the witnesses ...
... application for a continuance ; and ( 3 ) in allowing certain testimony . The motion to quash rests upon the ground that the district attorney was pres- ent before the grand jury during a part of the examination of the witnesses ...
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... APPLICATION . Where the hearing of an application for an injunction is upon bill , answer , and affidavits in support of the bill , and the answer fails to explain as fully as it should one point material in the case , and the action of ...
... APPLICATION . Where the hearing of an application for an injunction is upon bill , answer , and affidavits in support of the bill , and the answer fails to explain as fully as it should one point material in the case , and the action of ...
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... application to him to rent it recently , replied : " Yes , sir ; I know very little about it . All I know is Mr. Wooten came to me , and asked me if the room was to let . He asked me if I knew him . I said , ' No , sir . ' I said to him ...
... application to him to rent it recently , replied : " Yes , sir ; I know very little about it . All I know is Mr. Wooten came to me , and asked me if the room was to let . He asked me if I knew him . I said , ' No , sir . ' I said to him ...
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Page 43 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 432 - It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 523 - ... nor for omitting to state the time at which the offence was committed in any case where time is not of the essence of the offence, nor for stating the time imperfectly, nor for stating the offence to have been committed on a day subsequent to the finding of the indictment, or on an impossible day, or on a day that never happened...
Page 389 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 424 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 17 - The accused shall enjoy the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation...
Page 102 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Page 69 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Page 102 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the...
Page 76 - If she omitted to use them, and walked thoughtlessly upon the track, she was guilty of culpable negligence, and so far contributed to her injuries as to deprive her of any right to complain of others. If, using them, she saw the train coming, and yet undertook to cross the track, instead of waiting for the train to pass, and was injured, the consequences of her mistake and temerity cannot be cast upon the defendant.