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STATE v. SCOTT

No. 41292.

66 So.2d 802 (1953)

223 La. 769

STATE v. SCOTT et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

July 3, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Melvin P. Barre, Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for appellant.

James P. Vial, Hahnville, for defendants-appellees.

McCALEB, Justice.

The State is appealing from a judgment quashing the indictment herein on joint motion of the defendants. The indictment is drawn under the short form provided by Article 235 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, LSA-R.S. 15:235, and charges "that one Joseph Scott and one Calvin Scott * * * murdered one Ivory Reed * * *'.

The motion to quash is founded on the theory that the short forms may only be employed in prosecutions where there is one...

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