JENKINS v. STATE

No. 92-C-2477.

615 So.2d 405 (1993)

Joseph JENKINS v. STATE of Louisiana, City of New Orleans, James Stevens, Edward Baldwin, Lyle Trabeau.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied May 14, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., John J. Hainkel, Jr., III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen.,

Lemle and Kelleher, New Orleans, for relator.

Ernest Lee Caulfield, Maurice A. Williams, New Orleans, for respondent.

Before SCHOTT, C.J., and KLEES, BYRNES, WALTZER and LANDRIEU, JJ.


SCHOTT, Chief Judge.

On the application of the State of Louisiana we grant certiorari to consider the validity of a judgment of the trial court overruling relator's exception of res judicata. We affirm on the basis of LSA R.S. 13:4232(1).

In 1991 respondent filed suit in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans for damages resulting from his alleged fraudulent conviction of murder in 1957 and wrongful incarceration for thirty years. He based his...

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