State v. Elias

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Robert Elias, who was convicted in the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafayette, on the 21st of October, 1955, on the charge of illegal sale of narcotic drugs and was sentenced on the 28th of the same month and year, to be incarcerated in the State pentitentiary for a period of 12 years, having failed to apply for an appeal until his motion was read in open court on the 16th day of November, at Abbeville, Parish of Vermilion, the State has filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that the defendant’s motion for appeal was not timely.

The…