Knight v. New Orleans Police Department

REDMANN, Judge.

A former New Orleans police officer appeals from the city Civil Service Commission’s upholding of his April 19, 1973 suspension and July S, 1973 dismissal by the Superintendent of Police as a result of an alleged theft of five boards from a building site.

Our review of the Commission’s action is limited to questions of law, La.Const. (1921) art. 14 § 15(0) (1), and we must therefore accept the Commission’s factual findings based on substantial evidence, Cottingham v. Department of Revenue, 1957, 232 La. 546, 94 So.2d 662. The Commission found, from sufficient evidence, that two…