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STATE v. DAVIS, 176 La. 641 (1933)

146 So. 319

STATE OF LOUISIANA v. DAN DAVIS (TWO CASES).

Nos. 32172, 32173.Supreme Court of Louisiana.
January 30, 1933.

Appeal from Ninth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; Leven L. Hooe, Judge.

On motion to dismiss the appeal.

John R. Hunter, of Alexandria, for appellant.

G.L. Porterie, Atty. Gen., James O’Connor, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Cleveland Dear, Dist. Atty., of Alexandria (James O’Niell, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., of counsel), for the State.

O’NIELL, C.J.

The defendant broke jail and escaped, after he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary and had appealed from the conviction and sentence; and he is

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yet a fugitive from justice. The state, therefore, through the Attorney General, has moved to dismiss the appeal. Article 548 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that if the appellant in a criminal case be a fugitive from justice on the day the appeal is returnable, or on the day fixed for hearing the appeal, the appeal will be dismissed.

The appeal is dismissed.

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