State v. Nomey

HAMITER, Justice.

In the Parish of Jackson, by virtue of an election held pursuant to this state’s local option statute, the business of handling and selling alcoholic and intoxicating liquors is prohibited. And to make the prohibition effective, the police jury adopted an ordinance providing a penalty for the sale or keeping for sale of both intoxicating liquor and beer.

I. C. Nomey, the defendant in these cases, conducts a small .mercantile establishment and resides in a,certain building located in Jackson Parish. In the front part of the structure is located his business ; his living…