Mares v. Louisiana Wild Life & Fisheries Commission

The Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission has appealed a judgment making peremptory the issuance of an alternative writ of mandamus directing it to re*652turn 333 alligator skins taken from plaintiffs. They were seized as evidence in connection with, criminal charges filed by the Orleans Parish District Attorney on July 5, 1966. The alleged offenses involve illegal possession and treatment of alligator skins. The charges were nol-prossed in December, 1966 after which defendant denied plaintiffs’ request for the return of the hides.

In an earlier civil proceeding, filed November 30, 1967,…