City of Shreveport v. Bowen

An affidavit was made before tbe city court of Shreveport charging that the defendant is a “vagrant, being a person without visible means of support, who gambles, at the game of draw poker, for a living, in the city of Shreveport,” etc.; but the judge refused to arraign the accused or to receive any plea from him, and dismissed the prosecution, whereupon the city excepted and applied to this court for a writ of certiorari, and for a mandamus to compel the judge to proceed with the trial; and, the usual rule nisi having issued, the judge, for cause why the mandamus should not be made…