State ex rel. Caesar v. Gremillion

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

On a petition for habeas corpus filed in February, 1965, by Leonard Caesar, an in*1112mate of the East Louisiana State Hospital located in the Parish of East Feliciana, the judge of the Twentieth Judicial District Court for the Parish of East Feliciana issued an order directed to Lionel Gremillion, acting- superintendent of the hospital, commanding him to bring Caesar into court and to show cause why Caesar should not be released from further confinement in the institution. The acting superintendent produced Caesar in court and answered that Caesar was being held in the custody…