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STATE EX REL. MATTHEWS v. HENDERSON

No. 53953.

292 So.2d 496 (1974)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Lawrence MATTHEWS v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jim Garrison, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for defendants-respondents.

Robert F. Fleming, Jr., Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for plaintiff-relator.

DIXON, Justice.

On April 25, 1972 the defendant, Lawrence Matthews, was tried and convicted of armed robbery. R.S. 14:64. On July 28, 1972 relator was sentenced as a multiple offender (R.S. 15:529.1) to fifty years at Angola, and separate appeals were taken by his attorney. Pending appeal defendant was sent to Angola due to the crowded conditions at Orleans Parish Prison.

Petitioner filed a writ of habeas corpus...

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