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16 La. 287

State v. Cook

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 15, 1840

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1840-10-15

There was judgment against the defendant as surety in a bail bond, given by one Abraham Anding, charged with having committed an assault and battery with the intent to kill. The defendant obtained an appeal, and sent up the record, but in an imperfect state. asked for the dismissal of the appeal.

Decided 1840-10-15

Martin J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The defendant is appellant from a judgment against him, as the bail of one Anding, on an indictment for assault and battery, he having failed to produce the body of his principal.

¶3The certificate of the clerk states, that the record contains “a true and exact transcript of all the proceedings and documents on file in his office, and also, of all the evidence on file in said suit, (no parole evidence having been reduced to writing,) and that the bond, on which final judgment was rendered in said suit, has been lost.”

¶4There is no statement of facts or bill of exceptions in the record, and the certificate does not show that the record contains all the evidence on which the case was tried. We are consequently unable to examine the case on the merits.

¶5The appeal must, therefore, be dismissed with costs.

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