State ex rel. Williams v. City of New Orleans

During February, 1931, one Henry Kingston, a prisoner in the custody of the criminal sheriff in New Orleans, became gravely ill. There being in the then used prison no facilities for treating and properly attending to seriously ill prisoners, the sheriff, on the approval of the district attorney, obtained from the two judges of the criminal district court, in whose, respective divisions the charges against Kingston were pending, an order to remove the said prisoner to the Charity Hospital and to provide for special guards to attend him while he remained in the said hospital. The guards…