State v. Rolle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DeBlanc, J.

Defendant has appealed from a judgment condemning liim to pay to the State, as keeper of a bar-room a license of $85 — as a •grocer one of $15. The first mentioned of these licenses — that of $85— is claimed under section ten of act No. 14 of 1872, which reads as follows :

“ From the proprietors of all coffee-houses, bar-rooms, beer-saloons or gardens $85: from the proprietors of all bars kept on steamboats, ■owned and registered in this State $50.”

*992Defendant resists the payment of the license of 5p85, on the ground that the section of the act…