City of Des Moines v. Meredith

Defendant was charged with a misdemeanor, to wit, intoxication, under an ordinance of the City of Des Moines known as ordinance No. 349, section 714, which ordinance imposes a fine or penalty. The defense was that -although the said ordinance was duly passed by the city council of Des Moines, Iowa, on or about the 10th of May, 1886, and has remained in its present form since said date, it was never published in any newspaper of general circulation in the City of Des Moines as required by section 5720 of the 1939 Code. It is conceded that the City of Des Moines, in the year 1932 caused its…