State v. Cenac

I concur in the ruling denying the application for a writ of certiorari in this case for I am convinced of the correctness of the decision of the Court of Appeal (132 So.2d 897).

The only issue presented by the application which this Court has not heretofore adjudicated is the effect of Act 727 of 19541 upon the prior jurisprudence of this State construing Act 62 of 1912.

The Act of 1954 is an effort on the part of the Legislature to render nugatory the settled judicial construction of the 1912 act, by declaring that what an entirely different Legislature had in mind over two generations before…