Connell v. Sowers

MOTION TO DISMISS APPEAL

The plaintiffs, Robert A. Connell, Leslie D. Ligón, Jr. and William E. Woodward, brought this suit against the defendants, Louis M. Sowers, Director of Corrections, and C. Murray Henderson, Warden of the State Penitentiary at Angola, La., in which they seek a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants to pay their legal fees in connection with their defense of indigent defendants. A judgment was signed on March 27, 1972 by the trial court maintaining the writ of mandamus, and an order of appeal was granted and signed on April 13, 1972 returnable to this court on June…