State v. Courcier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
PPEAL from the First Recorder’s Oourt, City of New Orleans. Adams, J. Ordinance No. 92, O. S., of the City of New Orleans, making it unlawful for any one to sell, barter, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any lottery ticket or- token of any kind, is a legal and constitutional ordinance.
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PPEAL from the First Recorder’s Oourt, City of New Orleans. Adams, J. Ordinance No. 92, O. S., of the City of New Orleans, making it unlawful for any one to sell, barter, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any lottery ticket or- token of any kind, is a legal and constitutional ordinance. In appeals from convictions under City Ordinances the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is confined to an examination and determination of the legality and constitutionality of the Oity Ordinance under which the said fine or imprisonment was imposed. With the affidavit and the facts set forth in it, and with…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholas, C. J.
The defendant, charged with having violated an Ordinance of the City of New Orleans, was tried in the First Recorder’s Court of that City, found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, or, in default of payment of said fine, to imprisonment in the parish prison for the term of thirty days. The trial was conducted before and the judgment rendered and signed by Samuel Levy, signing himself acting judge of the First Recorder’s Court of New Orleans. The defendant has appealed.
The affidavit on which he was arrested charges…
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