State ex rel. Marr v. Otero

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, O. J.

Appellant in this case filed a petition in the Criminal District Oourt, in which he averred that it had been made his duty as District Attorney, to conduct the prosecution of all criminal cases in the parish of Orleans. That in compliance with the duty, he had employed Thomas M. Gill, Jr., a licensed and practicing attorney-at-law, to appear for and on behalf of the State of Louisiana, and to conduct in his (relator’s) name, and in his stead, a certain criminal prosecution, entitled: “The State of Louisiana vs. Fred A. Smith,” then…