State v. Bullock

TATE, Justice.

We granted certiorari, 261 La. 818, 261 So.2d 227 (1972), to review the action of the trial judge in setting aside, sua sponte, an order which a year earlier had granted the defendant a new trial.

The defendant Bullock was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1967-No appeal was taken. In 1971, the Criminal District Court, in which he had been tried, granted the defendant’s writ of habeas corpus and ordered a new trial for him, thus setting aside both the conviction (verdict) and the sentence. The State did’ *950not seek supervisory review of this action ■or otherwise attempt…