STATE EX REL. PEARCE v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE

No. 42805.

86 So.2d 191 (1956)

229 La. 555

STATE ex rel. Dave L. PEARCE v. DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 7, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred S. LeBlanc, Atty. Gen., pro se, and A. Leon Hebert, Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, for relators.

Rufus D. Hayes, Jack P. F. Gremillion, Baton Rouge, Camille F. Gravel, Jr., Alexandria, Edmund M. Reggie, Crowley, G. Dupre Litton, N. Cleburn Dalton, William C. Bradley, Baton Rouge, for respondents.


SIMON, Justice.

Inasmuch as the provisions of LSA-R.S. 18:364, Par. E, requiring a decision in cases of this character within 24 hours after submission, and the exigencies of the case under consideration requiring immediate action, we herewith hand down our decree in this matter—the reasons for which will follow in due course.

For the reasons to be hereafter assigned, the alternative writs of prohibition and...

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