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Rule 747. Trial
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If no jury is demanded by either party, the justice shall try the case. If a jury is demanded by either party, the jury shall be empaneled and sworn as in other cases; and after hearing the evidence it shall return its verdict in favor of the plaintiff or the defendant as it shall find.
Source: Art. 3985.
Change: Elimination of verdict of "guilty” or "not guilty."
Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941.
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