Town of Pineville v. Vandersypen

FOURNET, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Francis Vandersypen, from his conviction in the Mayor’s Court of the Town of Pineville (and his sentence thereunder to pay a fine of $25 or serve 2'5 days in jail) on a charge of violating city ordinance No. 412 by installing electrical wiring and fixtures witlun the town limits without first obtaining a permit to do so. He relies for the reversal of his conviction and sentence on a bill of exceptions reserved to the overruling of his motion to quash the charge, such motion being based on the illegality of the ordinance.

The illegality of…