State v. Jackson

DIXON, Justice.

MacAllynn J. Achee, appointed to represent the indigent defendant, filed a motion to withdraw as counsel and for a judgment against the State of Louisiana declaring that counsel shall be paid a fee and expenses, and that defendant be provided an investigator and a medical doctor at no expense. The motion assumes that counsel will not be paid.

The trial judge denied the motion, and on application of the attorney we granted writs.

The trial judge was correct when he refused to issue a declaratory judgment in a summary proceeding in a criminal case. See State v. Carruth, La., 324…