State ex rel. Hall v. Judge of the Tenth Judicial District

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the Judge of the Tenth Judicial District to grant leave to the District Attorney of that district to file in the District Court for the parish of DeSoto, an information which that officer presented against one Miles Taylor, charging him with the crime of severing from the soil of another a portion of the crop then growing thereon.

The judge bases his refusal on the ground that, in his opinion, the statute under which the prosecution is brought — Act No. 8 of the Extra Session of 1870 — is…