State v. Ward

TATE, Justice.

This appeal is from the trial court’s denial of a motion to re-sentence the defendant to life imprisonment.

The defendant had previously been sentenced to death. See 246 La. 766, 167 So.2d 359 (1964). Such sentence was set *319aside on collateral review, for reasons not here pertinent.

By a plea of moctness, our attention is called to the circumstance that, following the trial court denial of the motion, the defendant’s death sentence was commuted to a term of ten years and six months.

The plea is well founded. The courts will not rule on questions of law which become moot, since their…