State ex rel. Cronvich v. Wilkes

SANDERS, Justice.

By Bill of Information filed in the First Parish Court of Jefferson Parish, the State charged Helen J. Minor with a violation of LSA-R.S. 32:123: failing to stop at a stop sign. Then, the State instituted action in the district court for a writ prohibiting J. A. Wilkes, Justice of the Peace, from holding a preliminary hearing in the pending traffic case.

*57The district court granted the writ of prohibition. The Justice of the Peace ap^ pealed to the Court of Appeal. That court concluded it had no jurisdiction of the appeal and transferred the case to this Court. See 187 So.2d…