State ex rel. Melerine v. Trist

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

On application of Celestine Melerine showing that he was arrested and incarcerated in the St. Bernard Parish jail on November 9, 1959, on an ex parte order of the district judge in execution of the sentences in cases Nos. 4632 and 4634 on the docket of the Twenty-fifth Judicial District Court, although there was, at the time, a valid and outstanding reprieve of the Governor granting him a respite from these sentences, and that before relief could be sought in the district court and brought here for review the matter might be considered moot, as we held in the case of…