Case ID: la_148/html/0377-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PROVOSTY, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(86 South. 920)
    No. 24349.
    STATE v. VIDRINE.
    (Jan. 7, 1921.)
    Appeal from Sixteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Landry; B. H. Pavy, Judge.
    Gil Vidrine was convicted of crime, and appeals.
    Indictment, verdict, and sentence annulled, and accused discharged without day.
    Gil Vidrine, in pro. per.
    Dudley L. Guilbeau, of Opelousas, amicus curiae.
    A. V. Coco> Atty. Gen., and- R. Lee Garland, Dist. Atty., of Opelousas (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
   PROVOSTY, J.

The question presented in this case is the same precisely as in State v. Bennie Green (No. 24363) ante, p. 376, 86 South. 919, this day decided.

For the reasons there assigned, it is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the indictment, verdict, and sentence herein be and are hereby annulled, and that the accused he discharged without day.

DAWKINS, J., dissents.