State Ex Rel. Garland v. Guillory

It is my opinion that Act No. 3 of the Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Legislature of 1935 is unconstitutional in its entirety. The statute in authorizing the Governor to appoint a judge and a district attorney for the Thirteenth judicial district, composed of only the parish of Evangeline, is violative of section 33 of article 7 of the Constitution, requiring that district, judges shall be elected, and of section 58 of article 7 of the Constitution, requiring that district attorneys shall be elected. These statutory provisions are also violative of section 69 of article 7 of the…