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153 La. 233

State v. Stutzner

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 26, 1923

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1923-02-26

<p>Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge.</p> <p>Criminal prosecution by the State against Fred Stutzner. From a judgment quashing an indictment, the State appeals.</p>

Affirmed · Decided 1923-02-26

O’NIELL, C. J.

¶1The state has appealed from a judgment quashing an indictment. The accusation was that the defendant had ' attempted to commit subornation of perjury, by attempting to procure a witness to swear falsely in a criminal prosecution. The indictment is based upon section 857 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Act 18 of 1888, p. 15, making it a felony jto commit perjury or to procure the commission of perjury. The statute does not denounce an attempt to procure a person to commit perjury. Therefore, however reprehensible it is, an attempt at subornation is not made a crime by the statute, against perjury ,or the procuring of'a person to commit perjury.

¶2From the fact that no argument has been made and no brief filed in support of this appeal, we assume that the state’s attorneys have concluded that the judgment appealed from is correct.

¶3The judgment is affirmed.

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