Robert A. Edwards v. State of Louisiana

The State of Louisiana has appealed from the district court’s renewed judgment conditioning the grant of habeas corpus relief to Robert A. Edwards on the allowance of an out-of-time appeal. A similar conditional order was entered April 2, 1973. The state took no action following this first order but sought to appeal from the actual issuance of the writ in an order entered November 5, 1973. This court denied it relief on the ground that the April 2, 1973 order was a final judgment and that no appeal had been taken within the time permitted. Our mandate noted, however, that the state was not…