STATE EX REL. SMITH v. HENDERSON

No. 55973.

315 So.2d 275 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana ex rel. Henry SMITH v. C. Murray HENDERSON, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 23, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Frank T. Salter, Jr., Dist. Atty., James Babin, Asst. Dist. Atty., for defendant-appellee.

Cecil R. Sanner, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.


DIXON, Justice.

Henry Smith has taken an appeal from an adverse judgment on a post-conviction habeas corpus application in which he sought an out-of-time appeal. This court had previously ordered an evidentiary hearing on the application. This matter is not properly appealable to this court. La. Const. of 1974, Art. V, § 5(D); C.Cr.P. 369. However, since we have the record before us, we will treat the matter as a timely application for the exercise of our supervisory...

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