State ex rel. Muller v. Foster

Statement op the Case.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, O. J.

The plaintiff in his petition, applying for a writ of mandamus alleged that the defendant, Hon. T. Don Foster, was presiding judge of the Nineteenth Judicial' District, and had under the Articles 109 and 117 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana “unlimited and exclusive jurisdiction in all criminal cases,” and “had authortiy to try at any time all misdemeanors.”

That said jurisdiction was of right vested in him by the articles of the Constitution above referred to, and that no discretion as to acceptance or…