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51 La. Ann. 1296

State v. Devine

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 29, 1899

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1899-05-29

Baber, J. Statement op tiie Case. Defendant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary at hard labbor, for seven years, and to pay the costs of the prosecution, and he has appealed. .Iliscounsel relies, here, upon a motion, to quash the information, filed in the lower court, upon the grounds, that “the information is not sufficient in law-, and (hat he is not bound by the law' of the land to answer-same. * * * That the said information…

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1931

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Relies on Kelly v. Dolan

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Decided 1899-05-29

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¶1I.

Monroe, J.,

¶2after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the .court.

¶3The grounds upon which the motion to quash rests, are not well taken. The information contains all the averments necessary to charge the statutory crime of robbery, within the intendment of Section 810 of the Revised Statutes. State vs. Corbes, 47 Ann., 1587.

¶4As to the suggestion that there are two distinct offences charged in one count, i. e., “assault” and “robbery,” the answer is that the one is included in the other.- Mr. Bishop in his “New Criminal Procedure,” says: “Section 488. Many acts, if together they constitute one “offence, may be laid in one count,-thus:

¶5 * *

¶6“3. Assault, battery, and false imprisonment may be charged in ■one count, ‘though,” says Potts, J., ‘in themselves considered separately, they are distinct offences, yet, collectively they constitute but one offence.’ ”

¶7Referring to the crime of robbery, the same author says: “Section “1002. 1. The indictment should contain the allegations for simple “ larceny with the added matter which makes the larceny, robbery. It “is common to say that the ‘defendant’ in and upon X feloniously “ did make an assault and him the said X, in bodily fear and danger *1299“ of his life, then and there feloniously did put and one (setting out “■'tiro things taken and their values as in simple larceny) of the “moneys, goods, and chattels of the said X, from the person and “ against the will of the said X, then and there feloniously and vio- “ lently did steal, take, and carry away.

¶8“2. In statutory robbery, the terms of the statute must be followed,'’ etc.

¶9See also State vs. Corcoran, 50 Ann., 453.

¶10n.

¶11The motion for new trial presented questions of fact, of which this court has no jurisdiction. Constitution Art. 85. State vs. Cook, 42 A. 88. State vs. Moreau, 50 A. 8. State vs. Corcoran, 50 A. 453.

¶12Judgment affirmed.

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