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STATE EX REL. MELERINE v. TRIST

No. 44929.

116 So.2d 691 (1959)

238 La. 853

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Celestine MELERINE v. Dr. N. P. TRIST, Sheriff of Parish of St. Bernard.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

December 14, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tucker & Schonekas, George W. Reese, Jr., New Orleans, for applicant.

Leander H. Perez, Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for respondent.

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

On application of Celestine Melerine showing that he was arrested and incarcerated in the St. Bernard Parish jail on November 9, 1959, on an ex parte order of the district judge in execution of the sentences in cases Nos. 4632 and 4634 on the docket of the Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court, although there was, at the time, a valid and outstanding reprieve of the Governor granting him a respite from these sentences, and that before relief...

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