Stanley Seltenrich v. Maurice H. Sigler, Warden, Angola State Prison

Appealing from denial of writ of ha-beas corpus after exhausting similar relief in the Louisiana State Courts, including denial of writ of certiorari by the United States Supreme Court, 1 appellant contends that under a sentence 2 which is in law concurrent rather than consecutive, he is by continued imprisonment beyond one year deprived of his federal constitutional rights.

We cannot agree. Construction of the sentence entered by one of its courts is primarily the ultimate responsibility of the Louisiana Supreme Court. It has determined 3 that the sentence was clearly intended to be, and…