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118 La. 22

State v. Simmons

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided November 26, 1906

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1906-11-26

<p>Appeal from Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Natchitoches; Charles Vernon Porter, Judge.</p> <p>R. H. Simmons was convicted of crime, and appeals.</p>

Relies on 51 La. Ann. 731 - State v. Haines · State v. Carr · State v. Comstock

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Affirmed · Decided 1906-11-26

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Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1965

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NICHOLLS, J.

¶1The defendant has appealed from the judgment of the district court sentencing him to pay a fine of $325, *23and in default thereof 30 days in the parish jail.

¶2We find in the transcript what purports to he' all the testimony as adduced on the trial. It was not annexed to and made part of a bill of exceptions, and we cannot consider it. No bill of exceptions appears to have been taken. The note found in the body of the testimony given on the trial by the defendant and by witness Baxter, to the effect that certain questions propounded to these witnesses were objected to by the state, that the objection was sustained, and the bill of exception was reserved, is not a bill of exceptions. State v. Comstock, 36 La. Ann. 309; State v. Haines, 51 La. Ann. 731, 25 South. 372, 44 L. R. A. 837; State v. Napoleon, 104 La. 166, 28 South. 972; State ex rel. Markham v. Read, 52 La. Ann. 271, 26 South. 826.

¶3Binding no ground for the reversal of the judgment appealed from, it is hereby affirmed.

¶4On Application for Behearing.

PROVOSTY, J.

¶5The court did not misapprehend defendant’s cause of complaint. Only the court found that defendant was placing himself on evidence which, though incorporated in the transcript,was not attached to any bill of exception, and which, therefore, this court by a well-settled rule could not consider. State v. Carr, 111 La. 716, 35 South. 839, and cases there cited. Counsel assume this evidence to be part of the record, when it is not, and when the situation is just as if the evidence had not been incorporated in the transcript.

¶6The enforcement of this rule was insisted upon in the brief filed in behalf of the prosecution, and the court enforced it. But now, on this application for rehearing, the district attorney, whether with or without the concurrence of the Attorney General the court is not informed, seems to consent that the court take cognizance of this evidence thus improperly brought up. Whether this belated consent could have had any effect, if given before the decision of the case, is a question which need not be considered. Suffice it to say that it comes too late. The-court cannot establish the practice that, after a case has been submitted for decision and correctly decided, it shall be revived by consent and tried a second time in amended, form.

¶7Application denied.

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