Case ID: so2d_324/html/0821-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TATE, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Charles FONT.
    No. 57136.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 25, 1975.
   In re: Charles Font applying for Writ of Certiorari, Prohibition, Mandamus and Stay Order.

Writ denied. On the facts alleged, there is no error of law in the holding at the preliminary hearing that there was sufficient evidence to establish probable cause.

TATE, Justice.

I respectfully dissent. The state did not prove, for instance, that the money allegedly stolen from the non-testifymg victim was actually found on the accused’s person after the alleged incident. There was insufficient “hard” (i. e. non-hearsay) evidence to justify a holding of probable cause to hold the accused, in this preliminary hearing mandated by our Louisiana Constitution.

DIXON, J., concurs in the denial because there is no prohibition against the use of hearsay evidence at a preliminary hearing.