Case Name: STATE ex rel. POWELL v. MONTGOMERY, Registrar of Voters
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1916-04-24
Citations: 139 La. 465
Docket Number: No. 20850
Parties: STATE ex rel. POWELL v. MONTGOMERY, Registrar of Voters.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 139
Pages: 466–466

Head Matter:
(71 South. 768)
No. 20850.
STATE ex rel. POWELL v. MONTGOMERY, Registrar of Voters.
(April 24, 1916.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Elections ¡&wkey;73 — Registration — Right to Register — Constitutional Provision.
A voter who has removed from one precinct to another in the same parish has the right Vvithin six months after such removal to register and vote in the precinct from which he removed.
[Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Elections, Cent. Dig. §§ 69, 70; Dec. Dig. &wkey;73.]
Appeai from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; E. K. Skinner, Judge.
Proceeding by the State, on the relation of Frank J. Powell, against Samuel A. Montgomery, Registrar of Voters for the Parish of Orleans. Prom a judgment for relator, defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
R. G. Pleasant, Atty. Gen. (Daniel Wend-ling, of New Orleans, of counsel), for appellant. Walter L. Gleason, John C. Davey, and H. C. Cage, all of New Orleans, for appellee.

Opinion:
LAND, J.
The judge below held that a voter who had removed from one precinct to another in the same parish has a right within six months after such removal to register and vote in the precinct from which he removed. We think that the ruling is correct. Section 1 of article 197 of the Constitution of 1913 provides that:
' "Removal from one precinct to another in the same parish shall not operate to deprive any person of the right to vote in the precinct from which he has removed until six months after such removal."
Until the expiration of said six months the status of the voter remains the same, and to deny his right to register would be to deny his right to vote especially reserved to him by the organic law.
Judgment affirmed.