Supreme Court of Louisiana, 1951

State v. Perkins

State v. Perkins
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided November 5, 1951 · Hawthorne
220 La. 76; 55 So. 2d 786; 1951 La. LEXIS 967

State v. Perkins

Opinion of the Court

HAWTHORNE, Justice.

Defendant E. E. Perkins was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of the sentence was suspended except 15 days thereof upon good behavior. Defendant Ida Perkins was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of *78this sentence was suspended except 10 days thereof upon good behavior. Defendant J. F. Thompson was sentenced to serve six months in the parish jail, subject to work, and all of this sentence was suspended except 15 days thereof upon good behavior. The sentences in this case were to run concurrently with those in the case of State of Louisiana v. Perkins and Thompson, 220 La. 75, 55 So.2d 786.

For the reasons assigned in the case of State of Louisiana v. Johnson, 220 La. 64, 55 So.2d 782, the sentence imposed upon relators are annulled and set aside, and the case is remanded to the district court in order that the relators may be sentenced according to law.

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