Case ID: so2d_55/html/0786-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWTHORNE, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

220 La. 76
    STATE of Louisiana v. E. E. PERKINS, Ida Perkins, and J. F. Thompson.
    No. 40359.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Nov. 5, 1951.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 10, 1951.
    Gravel & Downs, Alexandria, for rela-tors.
    Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. Gen., M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ben F. Thompson, Dist. Atty., and Geo. M. Foote, Asst. Dist. Atty., Alexandria, for respondent.
   HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant E. E. Perkins was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of the sentence was suspended except 15 days thereof upon good -behavior. Defendant Ida Perkins was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of this sentence was suspended except 10 days thereof upon good behavior. Defendant J. F. Thompson was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of this sentence was suspended except 15 days thereof upon good behavior. The sentences in this case were to run concurrently with those in the case of State of Louisiana v. Perkins and Thompson, La.Sup., 55 So.2d 786.

For the reasons assigned in the case of State of Louisiana v. Johnson, La.Sup., 55 So.2d 782, the sentences imposed upon re-lators are annulled and set aside, and the case is remanded to the district court in order that the relators may be sentenced according to law.