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170 La. 94

127 So 376

State v. Woolfarth

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 5, 1930

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1930-03-05

Relies on State v. Dupont

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Decided 1930-03-05

How this case has been cited

Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 1973 · most notably Pilie v. National Food Stores of Louisiana, Inc. (1963), Gross v. Teche Lines, Inc. (1945)

1 federal appellate · 58 state decisions

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BRÜNOT, J.

¶1 This case presents the same question which is disposed of adversely to thé contention of *96 appellant’s counsel in the ease of State v. Dupont (La. Sup.) 127 So. 375. 1 The cases are alike except for this slight difference, viz.: In the Dupont Case, the defendant was charged with grand larceny, he pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eight months in the' parish jail. In the present case, the defendant was charged with grand larceny, he was tried by a jury, found guilty of the larceny of property of the value of $50, and was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, for a term, in the state penitentiary.

¶2 Grand and petit larceny of an amount exceeding $20 are punishable, in the discretion of the judge, by imprisonment in the parish jail or at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Hence the larceny of property exceeding $20 in value is held to be a felony in this state.

¶3 Upon the authorities cited and the reasons given in the Dupont Case, the sentence in this case is affirmed.

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¶4 Ante, p. 91.

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