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STATE v. JAMES

No. 57180.

329 So.2d 713 (1976)

STATE of Louisiana v. Sam H. JAMES and Doris Reed Enloe Finch.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 29, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Walter L. Smith, Jr., L. J. Hymel, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., R. Neal Wilkinson, Staff Atty; Ossie Brown, Dist. Atty., Edwin O. Ware, Special Prosecutor, Alexandria, for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert L. Kleinpeter, Baton Rouge and Gerard F. Thomas, Jr., Natchitoches, Kleinpeter & Nevils, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee, Sam H. James.

Stacey Moak, Cicero & Moak, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee, Doris Reed Enloe Finch.

MARCUS, Justice.

Sam H. James, Sheriff of Natchitoches Parish, and Doris Reed Enloe Finch were indicted by the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury for simple escape in violation of La.R.S. 14:110. Additionally, Sam H. James was indicted by the East Baton Rouge Parish Grand Jury for malfeasance in office in violation of La.R.S. 14:134. Both defendants moved to quash the indictments and alleged, inter alia, that East Baton Rough Parish was not a parish of proper...

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