The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-05-27
PETITION.
The following explains itself :
To the Honorable the Judge OF the 11th Jul
hCial District holding session in and for
the Parish of st. Landry, La:


To the Honorable the Judge OF the 1lth Ju-
| hiCial District holding session i'll aud for
the Parish of st. Landry, La:
| dent of the Parish of ST. Landry, would res
pectfully represent that: ON the affidavit of
f. p VeaZc, from information received. your
petitioner has been arrested upon a grave and
| ton 854 of the Revised Statutes. The said
affidavit especially charging your petitioner
with having feloneously and burglariously en-
| tered the dwelling house of said Veazie in the
Your pc ttioner alleges that he has always
borne good reputation. That he is married
and is the father of several children and be
| longs to a family well known in the Parish of
ST. Landry and III the town of Opelousas.
That the charge levelcd at him Is calculated
| to do him great Injury and harm, unless oy an
Immediate examination before Your Honor he
| exonerates himself rom this unjust and untrue
ptrsecutont
is anxious to terminate this matter by
| all examination before the District Judge
in order to be able to seek that redress
that the law gives an injured man. lie
alleges that soon he heard that his
name hai been mentioned III connection with
the entry into the house OF said Ve&zie, he
| used all means i'll his power to discover the
orgiuatcrs of these slanderOus reports failing
to trace them to any reliable source, he then
addressed Il letter to said Il. P. Veazie, de-
nOunciHg us slanderOus and untrue all such
| ence between him and said Veazie has ap
peared in public Erint, and speaks for itself
That on Sunday after consultation with his
legal advisors and his relatives, his proposition
to insist upon an examination OF this matter
| under provisions OF section ll67 of tho Revised
Statutes, was approved OF and adopted, and
the decision reached was, that early on Mon
day morning the District Attorney, at the ill.,
stance of petitioner, would he requested to ap.
ply and act under said section 1l67 as afOre-
| said. That whether said decision leaked out
ana reached the ears of said VeaZe and wheth-
er the affidavit made by said Veaze WAS done
in order to forestall such action on the part of
petitioner, he knows not. Petitioner alleges
that said Veazle having fully investigated this
matter, and having made his affidavit, must be
prepared to meet the ISSUE Petitioner al
leges that while it is true that the Offense
charged is bailable, and while it is trne he has
been admitted to ball. yet under the circum-
stancs, considering the gravity or the charge
and the incalculable harm it may do him, as
well as the public interest that seems to have
been aroused, he earnestly prays Your Honor
to grant him an Immediate preliminary. ex-
animation to the end that he may repel this
malicious prosecution and be enabled to make
|, the prosecutor legally responsible for his acts
That the prosecution IL without probable
cause and is malicious, and an examination of
IA speedy character will develop these facts.
Wherefore he prays that Your Honor will at
once grant him an examination to the end that
justice may be meted out in the premises, and
after hearing that your petitioner be dis
charged and completely exOnerated from this
untounded charge. That the District Attorney
be duly notified, and he concludes by praying
for all other orders and DEGREES necessary in
the premises and for general relief.
By his attorneys,
JNo. NoGDEN & SON,