Case ID: la_128/html/0557-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SOMMERVILLE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(54 South. 1008.)
    No. 18,798.
    STATE v. GUILLORY. Ex parte GUILLORY.
    (April 17, 1911.)
    
      (Syllabus by the Court.)
    
    Habeas Corpus (§ 44*) — Supreme Court — Appellate Jurisdiction.
    “The Supreme Court, and each of the justices thereof, shall have power to issue the writ of habeas corpus, at the instance of any person in actual custody, in any case where it may have appellate jurisdiction.”
    [Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Habeas Corpus, Cent. Dig. §§ 35, 613; Dec. Dig. § 44;* Courts, Cent. Dig. § 613.]
    Application of O. E. Guillory for a writ of habeas corpus.
    Writ denied.
    Edwards & Taught, for relator. ' Respondent Judge, in pro. per. Walter Guión, Atty. Gen. (G. A. Gondran, of counsel), for the State.
   SOMMERVILLE, J.

Defendant applies for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the sheriff of the parish of Evangeline, ordering him to release applicant from jail, and to restore him to the custody of his lessees. 1-Ie alleges that such persons b.ecame the lessees of his person under an ordinance of the police jury, passed by authority of Act No. 204 of 1908, which act provides for the leasing out of certain convicted persons under given conditions, by the police jury.

Defendant was tried and convicted on a charge of assault and battery, and he was sentenced to 30 days in the parish jail, and to pay a fine of $50.

The court is without appellate jurisdiction in the case (Const, art. 85), and cannot, therefore, issue the writ of habeas corpus asked for (Const, art. 93).

The rule nisi issued herein is recalled, and the application of plaintiff is denied.