JOHNSON v. SIGLER

No. 44319.

106 So.2d 469 (1958)

235 La. 1056

Ben A. JOHNSON v. Maurice H. SIGLER, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

November 10, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., George M. Ponder, Asst. Atty. Gen., William C. Bradley, Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., Teddy W. Airhart, Jr., Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant.

Jack Dyer, J. Peyton Parker, Jr., Baton Rouge, for respondent.


PONDER, Justice.

Ben Johnson, an inmate of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, brought habeas corpus proceedings against the warden of the penitentiary, in the Nineteenth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, seeking to have the judgment and sentence, under which he is now imprisoned, vacated and set aside, and to be released from imprisonment. The warden excepted to the jurisdiction ratione personae of the district court. This exception was tried...

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