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A Brief History of the Orleans Criminal District Court: 1926

1926

ACT. No. 6.     AN ACT
Defining the crime of burglary with explosives and providing the punishment therefor.

ACT No. 20.     AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Section 854 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana.

ACT No. 21.     AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Section 850 of the Revised Statutes of Louisiana.

ACT No. 31.    AN ACT
Regulating arraignments in criminal cases.

ACT No. 33.      AN ACT
To provide that stealing an automobile part, or an automobile accessory, or any automobile equipment, belonging to and attached to an automobile, shall be a misdemeanor, and to provide a penalty therefor, and to repeal all adverse laws.

ACT No. 48.    AN ACT
Making the operation of any motor vehicle of any nature whatsoever, by a person intoxicated and causing injury to person or property, a felony and providing penalties.

ACT No. 71.      AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Section 851 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana.

ACT No. 72.     AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Section 852 of the Revised Statutes of the State of Louisiana, as amended. and re-enacted by Act No. 15 of 1912.

ACT No. 115.     AN ACT
Making it a felony for any person to sell, transfer, donate give, mortgage, hypothecate, or in any wise encumber to the prejudice of the State of Louisiana, and with intent to defraud, any real estate, offered as security to the State of Louisiana on any bail or appearance bond for the release of any person charged with crime; and providing penalties for the violation of this Act.

ACT No. 193.    AN ACT
Providing an increase in salary for each of the Judges of Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans.

ACT No. 268.  AN ACT
Changing the title of the employees of the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, now known as "Janitors" to that of "Messengers", and fixing their salary.

ACT No. 333.    AN ACT
To amend and re-enact Section 10 of Act No. 114 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, Extra Session of 1921, entitled "An Act to organize the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans as established by Article VII, Sections 82, 83, 84, 85 and 86 of the Constitution of the State; to create a Board of Jury Commissioners for the Parish of Orleans; providing for the appointment of the same and the filling of vacancies therein; fixing the number of the Board; defining its duties, powers and compensation; providing for the manner of drawing, selecting and empaneling grand, petit and tales jurors for the Parish of Orleans; providing for the division of the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans into Sections; providing for an annual vacation for each of the judges of said Court; providing for a presiding Judge of said Court; providing for the jury terms for each section of said Court; providing for the appointment of official stenographers and minute clerks for said Court, and fixing their salaries; and that from and after the going into effect of this Act, Acts No. 98 of 1880, No. 170 of of 1894, No. 132 of 1898, No. 64 of 1912, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith shall stand repealed, provided that the Grand Jury empaneled and sworn prior to the date at which this Act shall go into effect shall continue to serve until their successors shall have been empaneled and sworn under the provisions of this Act, and that the petit jurors drawn for service for the month of October, 1921, shall be empaneled and sworn under the provisions of Act 98 of 1880, and of the several acts amendatory thereof; provided that the adoption of this Act shall not be taken or construed as vacating the office of the present Jury Commissioners of the Parish of Orleans, and provided further that all subsequent appointments of Jury Commissioners shall be made under this Act.

1926 Act 6

1926 Act 20

1926 Act 21

1926 Act 31

1926 Act 33

1926 Act 48

1926 Act 71

1926 Act 72

1926 Act 115

1926 Act 193

1926 Act 268

1926 Act 333