State v. Broussard

HIGGINS, Justice.

Under our supervisory jurisdiction, we ordered the issuance of writs of certiorari, prohibition, and mandamus to the district judge, who refused, in a habeas corpus proceeding, to impose a sentence of an indeterminate period of time instead of the sentence of a definite period of five years previously imposed upon the defendant, and thereby preventing him from obtaining bail pending the appeal from the conviction of the crime of carnal knowledge.

The basis of the trial judge’s ruling is twofold: (1) That an indeterminate sentence is mandatory only for those offenses where the…