STATE IN INTEREST OF PETERS

No. 44359.

109 So.2d 99 (1959)

236 La. 799

STATE of Louisiana in the INTEREST OF Richard PETERS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patsy Jo McDowell, General Counsel, Legal Aid Society, Baton Rouge, for defendants-appellants.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., J. St. Clair Favrot, Dist. Atty., Alex W. Wall, Asst. Dist. Atty., Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellee.


PONDER, Justice.

Two petitions were filed in the family court of East Baton Rouge Parish, one alleging that the minor, Richard Peters, age 7 years, was a neglected child and was not receiving proper care, custody and control in the home of his father, Willie H. Peters, Jr., and his stepmother, Frances Daniel Maggio Peters, in that among other things severe beatings were inflicted upon the person of the child with a belt leaving bruises on his back and legs; and the...

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