Salt Lake Herald | 1907-11-11 | Page 10 | Court Couldn't See It

COURT SEE IT Failure of an Attempt to Put Creoles in a Class by Themselves Now Orleans Nov 10 An attempt to have havo la Louisiana Creoles placed in a class so distinct from other American citizens us that they thc would have different jury rights filed failed f ned yesterday In the su supreme u preme court The record of the case cae was made public today T r M i Laborde whose counsel claimed him to be a Creole in hi appeal appealing tag ing a forgery charge declared that his Jury should have been composed either entirely or largely of Creoles His counsel insisted that although Laborde Labode lived in a parish where 95 93 per cent of cC the population was Creole nearly all his jurors were vere American Creoles were defined as descendants of French I and Spanish ancestry particularly I French They were said to hold more tenaciously to the racial characteristics tics and traditions of their ancestors j than persons of other descent in this country countr The court did not recognize this dis distinction ell Unction