State v. Nunez
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Nemours Nunez was indicted for extortion in his office as district attorney of the Twenty-Ninth Judicial District. His petition that the judge recuse himself or appoint the judge of an adjoining district to try the case or to pass on the question of recusation vel non was denied, and a rule issued requiring defendant to show cause against punishment for contempt for having made the allegations in such petition, and he prays for prohibition against respondent judge from…
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Nemours Nunez was indicted for extortion in his office as district attorney of the Twenty-Ninth Judicial District. His petition that the judge recuse himself or appoint the judge of an adjoining district to try the case or to pass on the question of recusation vel non was denied, and a rule issued requiring defendant to show cause against punishment for contempt for having made the allegations in such petition, and he prays for prohibition against respondent judge from further proceedings in the matter of the indictment or in the rule for contempt and for an order either that he recuse…
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, O. J.
Relator alleges that he is district attorney of the Twenty-Ninth judicial district (composed of the parishes of St. Bernard and Plaquemines); that the grand jury of the parish of Plaquemines returned into the district court sitting for that parish an indictment charging him with extortion in office; that on April 9, 1920, he filed in that court a sworn petition requesting the judge to recuse himself and appoint the judge of an adjoining district to try the case, or else appoint such judge to hear and pass on the *397question of recusation vel non, and the…
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