Legal Opinion

State v. Lanassa

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided February 14, 1910No. Nos. 17,807, 17,915-17,917PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal from Juvenile Court, Parish of Orleans ; Andrew H. Wilson, Judge. Antonio Lanassa and others were convicted of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors, and appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.

The four above-numbered cases are based on affidavits charging the same kind of offenses, namely, unlawful sales of intoxicating liquors to minors aged 17 years. The pleadings, exceptions, and evidence are the same in all four cases.

Defendants were severally convicted and sentenced, and have appealed.

The first exception in logical order is the one to the jurisdiction of the court. On the trial it was proved, out of the mouth of the witnesses for the prosecution, that at the time the alleged unlawful sales were made the minors named in the affidavits were over 17 years of age.

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2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Knott v. RawlingsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1959
  2. State v. ShabazzNew Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division · 1993
  3. Butler v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1917
  4. In Re BlackeyNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1926
  5. State v. WilsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1910

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