State v. Investigation by Garrison

As pointed out in my dissenting opinion in the refusal to grant a writ in State v. Investigation, and Gerami v. Pharis, 245 La. 193, 157 So.2d 735, “ * * * R.S. 15 :- 156,1 as incorporated in the Code of Criminal Procedure when our statutes were revised in 1950, is nothing more than a codification of the law that has been in existence since the governor of Louisiana, on February 22, 1817, approved the act adopted by the then General Assembly of Louisiana, which is to be found at page No. 180 of the 1816-17 acts of the state, being Section 8 of an act entitled ‘An Act supplementary to an act…