Case ID: la_140/html/0313-01.html
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Author: {"author": "O’NIELL, J. MONROE, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(72 South. 979)
    No. 22222.
    STATE v. LEPPERT. In re LEPPERT.
    (Oct. 30, 1916.)
    W. J. Leppert was accused of crime, and appeals for writs of certiorari and prohibition.
    Peremptory writ of prohibition ordered, and defendant discharged.
    A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., and H. H. Kilbourne, Dist. Atty., of Clinton (Yernon A. Coco, or Marksville, and Charles Kilbourne, of Clinton, of counsel), for the State. Gustave Lemle and Benjamin T. Waldo, both of New Orleans, and George H. Woodside, of St. Franeisville, for defendant. John R. Hunter, Dist. Atty., of Alexandria, amicus eurise.
   O’NIELL, J.

The facts of this case are stated fully in the opinion rendered this day in the case of State v. Daniel D. Moore (No. 22221), 72 South. 965, in re. Daniel D. Moore applying for writs of certiorari and prohibition.

For the reasons assigned in that case, it is ordered that the rule issued herein be made absolute, that a peremptory writ of prohibition issue heroin,-directed to the judge of the Twenty-Fourth judicial district court, in and for the parish of East Feliciana, prohibiting further proceedings in the prosecutions complained of, and that the defendant, Leppert, be discharged.

MONROE, C. J.

(dissenting). For the reasons assigned in the case bearing the same title as the above and the number No. 22221 of the docket of this court (72 South. 976), I respectfully dissent from the opinion and decree herein this day handed down. 
      
       Ante, p. 281.