13 La. Ann. 486
Decided December 15, 1858
Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1858-12-15
<p>When a statute punishing an offence has been repealed without any saving clause, as to prosecutions already commenced, it operates as a pardon to persons convicted under such repealed statute.</p> <p>It is tho duty of the court, ex officio, to notice the repeal of laws.</p>
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1942
4 state decisions
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Decided 1858-12-15
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¶1concurring. There is a motion to dismiss the appeal in this case because there is neither a bill of exception nor an assignment of errors in the record.
¶2For my views on the motion to dismiss I refer to what we have said in the case of State v. Henderson, a slave, just decided.