STATE OF LOUISIANA v. ALLGOOD

Misc. No. 871.

273 F.Supp. 194 (1967)

STATE OF LOUISIANA, ex rel. James PICARD PMB #61518 v. J. Wayne ALLGOOD, Warden, et al., Louisiana State Penitentiary.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, Baton Rouge Division.

August 30, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Covington, Hunt & Covington, Baton Rouge, La., appointed by the Court to represent petitioner.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, Teddy W. Airhart, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, La., for respondent.


WEST, District Judge:

Petitioner, James Picard, applies to this Court for a writ of habeas corpus to release him from a ten year sentence which he is presently serving at Louisiana State Penitentiary for violation of LSA-R.S. 40:962, Illegal Possession of Narcotics. It is from this sentence that petitioner here seeks relief, but he is also serving a concurrent eight year sentence on a different charge, which sentence was imposed some two years after the imposition...

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