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A Brief History of the Orleans Criminal District Court: 1916

1916

ACT NO. 89     AN ACT
To punish the unlawfully having in one's possession combustibles or explosive substances with the malicious intent to destroy property.

ACT NO. 93     AN ACT
To provide that in all criminal cases tried before the Judge without the intervention of a jury, counsel shall have the right to submit to the judge propositions of law in the same manner as requested charges to the jury are now submitted; that it shall be the duty of the judge to pass upon the legality and applicability of said submitted proposition before rendering any judgment upon the guilt or innocence of accused; that counsel shall have the right to reserve bills of exception to the rulings of the judge upon said submitted propositions; that counsel shall have the right to annex the evidence to said bills of exception so reserved; and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith.

ACT NO. 123.     AN ACT
To provide for the Imposition of Indeterminate Sentence upon Persons Sentenced to Imprisonment in the State Penitentiary at Hard Labor Otherwise than for Life, or Persons Convicted of Treason, Arson, Rape, Attempt to Commit Rape, Crimes Against Nature, Bank and Homestead Officials Misusing Funds of the Depositors, Notaries Public who are Defaulters, Train Wreckers, Kidnapers and Dynamiters.

ACT    NO. 124.    AN ACT
To confer on prisoners now serving terms of imprisonment at hard labor the benefit of an indeterminate sentence.

ACT NO. 125.     AN ACT
To establish a mode by which prisoners sentenced to an indeterminate sentence may be paroled and in order to carry out the provisions of this Act to create a Board of Parole and to define the powers and Duties of said Board, who shall serve without compensation.

ACT NO. 157.      AN ACT
To declare who shall be competent witnesses in civil and criminal cases.

ACT   NO. 228.      AN ACT
Making it an offense for any officer or employee of Homestead Associations engaged in business in the State of Louisiana, to knowingly make false reports or false entries or refuse to exhibit or allow to be exhibited the books and records of said association for inspection by the Examiner of State Banks, or one of his authorized assistants, with intent to deceive or defraud, and providing a penalty therefor.

ACT   NO. 249.         AN ACT
Making the stealing or malicious removal of journal brasses, fixtures, or attachments from locomotives, tenders, freight or passenger cars, a crime punishable by imprisonment, and providing what shall be prima facie evidence of violation of this Act.

ACT NO. 273.            AN ACT
Making it a crime for any one will fully and knowingly to purchase any property or material commonly classed as "junk"'; or any second hand property, unpaid for by the seller or not owned by the seller, and providing for a written statement from the seller that such property or material commonly classed as junk, or second-hand property has been paid for and is owned by the seller and making the failure to exact such statement from tile seller evidence of tile willful and felonious intent within the meaning of this Act, and to fix the punishment for said crime, and to repeal all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act. 

1916 Act 89

1916 Act 93

1916 Act 123

1916 Act 124

1916 Act 125

1916 Act 157

1916 Act 228

1916 Act 249

1916 Act 273