Abstract

"I'm the Constitution" in Louisiana

The article focuses on Louisiana constitution. Crimes and misdemeanors in office, incompetence, corruption, favoritism, oppression in office, and gross misconduct, are among the charges brought against Huey P. Long, Governor of Louisiana, by the State House of Representatives in the impeachment proceedings formally instituted on March 27. Nineteen charges are leveled against the Governor, the most serious being that he "while Governor, while in the city of Baton Rouge and in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, did attempt to hire and induce one H.A. Bozeman to kill and murder one J.Y. Sanders, a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, as shown and set forth in the sworn statement of H.A. Bozeman, March 25, 1929.