State ex rel. Mahler v. Judge of the Twenty-first Judicial District Court of the Parish of Jefferson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The relators apply for writs of habeas corpus and certiorari. The charge against them is assault and battery. They assert that they applied to be admitted to bail; the judge refused to issue an order admitting them to bail.

The sheriff makes the usual return in such cases. • The judge in réspect to the habeas corpus, in answer to the rule nisi, states that under the provisions of Arts. 86 and 109 of the Constitution he had jurisdiction of the case.

In matter of the certiorari he answered that the original record is before this court in…