State Ex Rel. Cox v. Clemmons

HAMITER, Justice.

The instant two cases were brought here under our supervisory powers following the district court’s refusal to make peremptory alternative writs of habeas corpus granted on the petition of relator, B. Elton Cox. Those writs were sought on the ground that relator’s sentences, pronounced immediately after his convictions, were illegal in that the court imposed them contrary to LRS 15:521 which recites: “In all criminal cases at least twenty-four hours shall elapse between conviction and sentence, unless the accused waive the delay and ask for the imposition of sentence at once;…