STATE EX REL. THOMPSON v. HENDERSON

No. 55080.

306 So.2d 713 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. John THOMPSON, Petitioner-Relator, v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Defendant-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Douglas, Douglas & Favre, New Orleans, for petitioner-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Louise Korns, Asst. Dist. Atty., for defendant-respondent.


TATE, Justice.

The petitioner Thompson was convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. We affirmed this conviction and that of his co-defendants Wallace and Holland. See State v. Wallace, 254 La. 477, 224 So.2d 461 (1969).

At the trial, all three defendants have been represented by the same counsel. By post-conviction proceedings Thompson claims that he was denied...

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