State ex rel. Marr v. Bezou

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The relator, unable, he says, to attend the sessions-of the Recorder’s Courts, employed a duly licensed and practising attorney, to appear for the State, and conduct in his name and stead, a criminal prosecution.

The respondent, on the motion of the defendant, ruled,when the case *1370was pending in the court below — i. e., in State vs. Bonafon, that the District Attorney was without authority to appear before a police court and examine witnesses; and, therefore, he was without legal power to send any one to represent him in the ease before his…