Dawkins v. Bazer

OVERTON, Justice.

George W. Hardy, mayor of Shreveport, and Dennis D. Bazer, chief of police thereof, were adjudged guilty, in the First district court, parish of Caddo, of contempt of court, and have applied to this court for writs to review the proceedings had and to stop further proceedings.

The contempt is for the alleged violation of a writ of injunction. The writ was issued in the case of Dawkins, Superintendent of Public Safety, v. Bazer, Chief of Police, 172 La. 327, 134 So. 238, 239. When the decree in the cited case reached the Court of Appeal for the Second Circuit, it ordered a…