State v. Fleckinger

DAWKINS, 3.

Defendants were jointly charged in an affidavit in the criminal district court for the parish of Orleans with operating a lottery shop and having in their possession lottery paraphernalia in violation of section 12 of Act No. 107 of 1902, as amended by Act 280 of 1914. The case not having been tried, counsel for the accused dictated to the official stenographer in open court the following motion:

“Defendants, through their counsel, move that the state of Louisiana be ordered to show cause why the property and effects taken from the dwelling house of the defendant, Bessie Johnson,…