State ex rel. Jefferson v. Gray
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Application by the state, on the relation of Nelson Jefferson, for writs of certiorari and prohibition to IT. J. Gray, judge of the Seventh Judicial District Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaitx, J.
This case involves primarily the question of the repeal vel non of Act No. 66, p. 93, of 1902.
The grand jurors of the parish of Lincoln presented an indictment to the court against Nelson Jefferson for unlawfully retailing spirituous and intoxicating liquors without having previously obtained a license from the police jury of the parish of Richland, or any other authority. He was tried and convicted as charged.
He presents a petition for a writ of prohibition to prohibit the respondent district judge from executing the verdict returned by pronouncing sentence as required after conviction.
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