STATE EX REL. CHERRY v. CORMIER

No. 53046.

281 So.2d 99 (1973)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Toler Jackson CHERRY v. Warren CORMIER, Warden, Louisiana Correctional Industrial School.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie D. Ligon, Jr., Clinton, for plaintiff-applicant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Jack E. Yelverton, Asst. Atty. Gen., S. J. Dileo, Jr., Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., for defendant-respondent.


BARHAM, Justice.

Relator Cherry applied for and was granted a writ of certiorari to review the judgment of the district court denying his second habeas corpus petition to that court. In his application for certiorari relator contended that the evidentiary hearing held on his first habeas petition was unfair because the district court did not appoint counsel to represent him and that the district court therefore erred in denying his second petition, which was based...

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