City of New Orleans v. Dunlap

ROGERS, Justice.

The defendant, John Dunlap, was convicted in the First recorder’s court of the' city of New Orleans of violating Ordinance No. 1436, N. C. S., entitled “An Ordinance relative to vagrants, dangerous and suspicious persons, bunco steerers, confidence men, notorious thieves, and those who harbor or maintain same.” Under his conviction defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $25, or in default of payment of the fine to suffer imprisonment for a period of thirty days.

‘ Defendant appealed from his conviction and sentence on the general allegation that the ordinance under which he…