State Ex Rel. Blouin v. Walker

HAMITER, Justice.

Relying on the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Robinson v. State of California (1962), 370 U.S. 660, 82 S.Ct. 1417, 8 L.Ed.2d 758, the above named three relators instituted habeas corpus proceedings in the Twentieth Judicial District Court, in and for the Parish of West Feliciana, seeking to be released from imprisonment at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. Separate petitions were filed, but the matters were consolidated and heard together inasmuch as all presented the same legal issue.

Following the hearing, the district judge recalled the previously…