Louisiana ex rel. Picard v. Allgood

WEST, District Judge:

Petitioner, James Picard, applies to this Court for a writ of habeas corpus to release him from a ten year sentence which he is presently serving at Louisiana State Penitentiary for violation of LSA-R.S. 40:962, Illegal Possession of Narcotics. It is from this sentence that petitioner here seeks relief, but he is also serving a concurrent eight year sentence on a different charge, which sentence was imposed some two years after the imposition of the ten year sentence, and after this application for habeas corpus had been filed in this Court. I have serious doubts that…