STATE EX REL. PRESTON v. HENDERSON

No. 53541.

283 So.2d 230 (1973)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. James PRESTON and William Stewart v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

September 24, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Mintz, Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer, Matthews & Schumacher, New Orleans, for plaintiff-respondents.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Jack E. Yelverton, S. J. Dileo, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., Jim Garrison, Dist. Atty., for defendant-applicant.


MARCUS, Justice.

We granted certiorari and a stay order, upon application of the Attorney General for the State of Louisiana, to review the ex parte order issued by Judge Charles R. Ward, Judge of the Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans, ordering the Attorney General to represent C. Murray Henderson, Warden of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, in a habeas corpus proceeding filed on behalf of James Preston and William Stewart in the section of the Criminal District...

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