STATE EX REL. McISAAC v. SIGLER

No. 44311.

109 So.2d 89 (1959)

236 La. 773

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Roosevelt McISAAC v. Maurice SIGLER, Warden of State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Love & Rigby, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edwin L. Blewer, Dist. Atty., C. J. Bolin, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Shreveport, for defendant-appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

On September 6, 1957 appellant was sentenced to serve concurrent terms of five and ten years in the State Penitentiary on his plea of guilty to charges of narcotic addiction and possession of a hypodermic needle in violation of R.S. 40:962(A) and (B).

In April of 1958, he applied to this court for a writ of habeas corpus in the proceedings entitled State of Louisiana v. Roosevelt McIsaac, No. 44...

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