No. 1247 Precedential Set aside Processed

State ex rel. White

Louisiana Court of Appeal, Fifth Circuit · Filed February 3, 1964 · 160 So. 2d 344

Also decided on this docket: La., July 15, 1885 37 La. Ann. 718; La., March 15, 1867 70 La. Ann. 99; La. Ct. App. 3d Cir., October 27, 1964 168 So. 2d 426

Cited by

In Interest of LaRocca 363 So. 2d 1325 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1978
State ex rel. Campbell 344 So. 2d 711 La. Ct. App. 1st Cir. 1977
In Re State in Interest of Wesley 285 So. 2d 308 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1973
State, in Interest of Garland 160 So. 2d 340 La. Ct. App. 4th Cir. 1964

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State, in Interest of Garland 160 So. 2d 340

Opinion text

CHASEZ, Judge. This appeal was consolidated with the proceeding entitled State of Louisiana in the Interest of Murray J. Garland, La.App., 160 So.2d 340 , No. 1246. The record shows that Larry Carl White, appellant herein and then 15 years of age, was awakened from sleep in his home at about 5:15 a. m., by the Kenner police, who had been conducting an investigation of Murray Garland, the juvenile appellant in cause No. 1246. Garland testified White had been with him earlier in the night *345 but had gone home between 10:15 and 10:45 p. m. The testimony of White and Roy C. Gardner, at whose home White was living, shows that White refused to admit any part in window-breaking incidents about which the police questioned him. Nevertheless, the police took White from his home at 5 :30 a. m., and brought him to the Kenner jail, instead of complying with LSA-R.S. 13:1577. After questioning him (as well as Garland) repeatedly until 9:00 a. m., and even though he previously refused to do so, the police had him (and Garland) execute the confessions on which the judgment committing appellant was based. The evidence and law discussed in the companion case of Garland is applicable here, and for the reasons therein assigned, the judgment appealed from is reversed and set aside, and it is now ordered, adjudged and decreed that the juvenile, Larry C. White, be and he is hereby discharged from the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court for the Parish of Jefferson on the charges herein. Reversed and rendered.