State v. Kelley

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Grady L. Kelley, Jr., against whom nineteen indictments were returned by the Grand Jury of the Parish of Rapides, eighteen charging malfeasance in office and the nineteenth charging unauthorized use of a movable, moved in each case to recuse Judge Walter M. Hunter of the Ninth Judicial District Court to whom the cases were assigned on the ground that he is a material witness and will be summoned in the event of trial of these charges to testify on behalf of the defendant. 1 On Judge Hunter’s refusal to voluntarily recuse himself the matter was referred by…