State v. Lowry
State v. Lowry
Opinion of the Court
Defendant was charged with having in his possession intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to imprisonment in jail for 60 days, and, in default of payment of fine, to an additional term of 12 months’ imprisonment.
The record in this case contains two motions to quash, a motion for new trial, and 7 bills of exception, exclusive of the three bills reserved to the overruling of the "motions to quash and the motion for a new trial.
The motions to quash are based on the following grounds:
(1) That said indictment does not charge any offense known to the laws of the state of Louisiana.
(3) That said indictment does not inform the accused of the nature and cause of the accusation brought against him.
(4) That said indictment fails to set forth a charge that the said liquor was possessed for sale.
(5) That said indictment merely sets forth a conclusion of the pleader.
(6) That said indictment fails to negative the permissive sections of said statute.
(7) That Act 39 of 1921 is unconstitutional because said act embraces more than one object, and because the title of said act is not indicative of the objects set forth,
(8) Because Act 39 of 1921 defines intoxicating liquors by reference to federal legislation.
Bills of exception Nos. 1 and 2 were reserved to the action of the trial judge in overruling the motions to quash.
In the case of State v. Craft, 118 La. 125, 42 South. 718, this court held that the defendant in a criminal case has not the right to require that the trial judge should order the clerk to take down in writing all of the evidence of the eyewitnesses to a homicide, in advance of any testimony having been adduced, or objection to testimony having been made, and that the right claimed by the accused in that case went beyond Act 113 of 1896, the statute upon that subject.
Bills of exception Nos. 4, 5, and 6 were reserved to the admission of testimony to show the finding of whisky in the possession of the defendant on his premises, in the absence of a sealeh warrant.
In the case of State v. McLaughlin, 138 La. 958, 70 South. 925, we said:
“That a person charged with murder, by cutting the throat, is denied no constitutional right in having the scrapings from beneath his fingers nails, and his clothing taken, though against his will, with a view to their being tested for the presence of human blood.”
We find nothing new raised in bill of exception No. 10, reserved to the action of the trial judge in overruling the motion for a new trial.
The judgment appealed from is therefore affirmed.
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- (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.) 1. Intoxicating liquors &wkey;>211 — Indictment for possessing held good. An indictment charging that defendant unlawfully possessed, for beverage purposes, intoxicating liquor shown to be whisky by the bill of particulars, was good as against motion to quash under Act No. 39, of 1921. 2. Crimina! law &wkey;l i 11 (2) — Judge’s statement in per curiam to bill prevails over counsel’s statement in the bill. Trial judge’s statement in per curiam to bill of exceptions that he did not refuse to permit defendant’s counsel to have evidence taken by stenographer at his own expense, prevails over counsel’s statement in the bill to the contrary, when record contains nothing about the matter. 3. Criminal law &wkey;>393(2) — Evidence of finding of whisky after doors opened because of threats does not compel defendant to incriminate himself. Defendant was not compelled to incriminate himself by admitting evidence of the finding of whisky after he unlocked a locker and the door of a room, because of threats to kick down the door. 4. Intoxicating liquors A gambling shack, near defendant’s private residence, and used as a place of business, was not immune from search without a warrant as his private dwelling or abode under' Act No. 39, of 1921, § 5, because there was a bed there with a pistol lying on it. 5. Criminal law i&wkey;394 — Evidence not inadmissible because obtained upon search without warrant. Evidence is not inadmissible in a criminal case because secured in an illegal manner as by search without a warrant.