City of New Orleans v. Cook

HAMLIN, Justice.

In the exercise of our supervisory jurisdiction (Art. VII, Sec. 10, La.Const. of 1921) we directed Writs of Certiorari, Mandamus, and Prohibition to the Criminal District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in order that we might review its judgment which made peremptory the instant Writ of Plabeas Corpus issued out of said court, set aside the conviction and sentence of the defendant, and ordered defendant released from the House of Detention.

The record reflects that Emanuel Cook, seventeen years of age, was allegedly arrested on the night of August 7, 1966. On August 8, 1966,…