STATE EX REL. YOUNG v. TAYLOR

No. 42112.

78 So.2d 539 (1955)

227 La. 142

STATE ex rel. Joseph YOUNG v. Howard J. TAYLOR, Judge, Traffic Court of New Orleans.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. G. Williams, New Orleans, for relator.

Henry B. Curtis, City Atty., Herbert J. Garon, Asst. City Atty., New Orleans, for respondent.


PONDER, Justice.

The relator was found guilty on September 29, 1954 of contempt for failing to appear for trial in the Traffic Court of New Orleans. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $10 and to serve a term of 18 hours imprisonment and 6 hours additional imprisonment in default of paying the fine. The relator applied for and was granted supervisory writs which were issued by the Honorable Niels F. Hertz, Judge of Section "F" of the Criminal District Court for the...

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