State v. Landry

The special act of the Legislature incorporating the city of Bogalusa included the village of Richardsontown within the city liinits, and abolished its charter. Act 14, p. 15, of 1914, sections 1 and 60. “With the consent of the inhabitants of said village,” says the act. Whether at that time the village was a going municipality in the sense of having a set of officials for the administration of its affairs, or, in other words, whether its charter was being used, or, indeed, had ever been used, does not appear.

The accused was prosecuted before the city court for violation of Act 211, p. 403,…