State ex rel. Paine v. Potts

ON \ PPLIOATION FOR A WRIT OF MANDAMUS.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The proceedings are by mandamus (o compel the trial judge to cause the defendant to be brought before him to be examined touching his sanity or insanity; to hear witnesses with the view of obtaining a judgment of interdiction.

The history of the case shows that on the trial before the District Court evidence was introduced before the jury to sustain defendant’s-plea of insanity; that the District Judge charged the jury fully upon the law of insanity as applicable to the case.

The trial judge avers in his…