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JONES v. LaBARBERA

No. 13234.

342 So.2d 1125 (1977)

J. W. JONES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert R. LaBARBERA, Defendant-Appellant, and Caddo Parish Democratic Executive Committee, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

February 7, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pugh & Nelson by Robert G. Pugh, Henry C. Walker, IV, Shreveport, for defendant-appellant.

J. W. Jones, in pro. per.

William F. Baldwin, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Democratic Committee.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and MARVIN, JJ.

MARVIN, Judge.

Article 5, § 29, La.Const.1974, in part, requires that the coroner shall be a "licensed physician," but that this requirement ". . . shall be inapplicable in any parish in which no licensed physician will accept the office.1

The issue presented is whether the appellant, who is licensed to practice medicine in Spain but not in Louisiana, may qualify as a candidate for coroner in Caddo Parish.

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