State ex rel. Condon v. Duson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Poché, J.

The relator, who is in the custody of the sheriff, has applied for a writ of habeas corpus, for the purpose of being admitted to bail.

He shows that the charge under which he is held, that of manslaughter, is a bailable offense, and that the judge of the District Court of the Parish of St. Landry, the only court of competent criminal jurisdiction, is now absent from the State. Hence, he alleges that his only remedy for the enforcement of his constitutional right of bail is by means of an application to the judges of this Court.

Resisting the…