ARCENEAUX v. LOUISIANA

No. 76.

376 U.S. 336 (1964)

ARCENEAUX v. LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 9, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Minos Simon argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner.

Bertrand De Blanc argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief were Jack P. F. Gremillion, Attorney General of Louisiana, and M. E. Culligan, Assistant Attorney General.


PER CURIAM.

Petitioner, who was before the state court "on a charge of vagrancy,"1 raised several objections to a denial of a preliminary hearing. The third of these reads as follows:

". . . that the bill of information charges no offense known to law and if it charges an offense within the meaning and intentment [sic] of a Louisiana statute, then both the statute and the bill of information are unconstitutional, null,...

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