Legal Opinion
Stidham v. Sowers
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided December 13, 1971No. 51244PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMLIN, Justice:
The Court of Appeal, First Circuit, ex proprio motu issued an order, March 9, 1971, transferring the present appeal to this Court. It stated that it had examined the record and found that the following defect affected its jurisdiction to consider the appeal, “The appeal taken is incidental to a criminal action.” The matter was argued here on November 12, 1971; at that time our appellate jurisdiction was questioned, and, infra, we shall determine that issue.
The record discloses that on July 30, 1968, the Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court for the Parish of Bossier sentenced…
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