City of New Orleans v. Griffin
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Second Recorder’s Court of City of New Orleans; Louis Burthe, Jr., Recorder. Widow J. Griffin, Steve Griffin, and John Griffin, Jr., were convicted of a violation of an ordinance relative to dairy limits, and appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
The affidavit upon which defendants were convicted in the recorder’s .court in this case charges them with having violated “at 2117 Lafayette avenue” Ordinance “No. 13,335 C. O. C. S., amended by C. O. 5419, C. C. S., relative to dairy limits.”
[1] The complaint of defendants that this does not inform them of the nature of the charge against them, so as to enable them to make their defense, is, we think, unfounded. They could not pretend not to know that the ordinance in question is the one which forbids the keeping of dairies within certain limits designated in the ordinance, and that by the…
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