In Re State Ex Rel. Goodwin

FOURNET, Justice.

Clydell Belgard and her husband, James E. Goodwin, alleging that on Sunday, November 14, 1948, while she was on a temporary leave from the Juvenile Detention Home of Caddo Parish, they were married by a Justice of the Peace in Bossier City, Louisiana, sought her release in this proceeding under the holding of this court in the case of State v. Priest, 210 La. 389, 27 So.2d 173. She is appealing from the refusal of the trial judge to grant the relief sought.

Clydell, a girl of 14 who, by appearance, could have passed for 16 or 17, was taken into custody by the probation officer…