State v. Collins

This application of John L. Collins, who is confined in the state penitentiary under sentence of the criminal district court of the parish of Orleans, is very irregular in form. The applicant asks for the issuance of a writ of certiorari, addressed to the criminal district court, which has been granted. He also asks that a writ of prohibition issue, directed to the board of control of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, prohibiting the said board of control from further enforcing the terms of the order of commitment issued against him, and that he be restored to liberty without delay, and for…