Town of Minden v. McCrary

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux» J.

The minutes of the Mayor’s Court show that one of the defendants in case number one was charged with “permitting a gambling- game to be run in his house, room, or tenement, accessible to the public in the town of Minden,” and the other defendants were found guilty of gambling.

He was tried and found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) and to be imprisoned one day for each dollar imposed in default of payment. From this sentence he appeals.

Here a motion is made to dismiss the appeal on a number of grounds, among them…