State ex rel. Taquino v. Arnauld

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McEnery, J.

The relabor was convicted before the respondent’s court for violating Ordinance No. 12,755. He complains that the respondent excéeded his authority in imposing the penalty upon him under Section 3 of the ordinance.

Section 3 is as follows:

“ That whoever shall violate the provisions of bhis ordinance shall, upon conviction before the recorder within whose jurisdiction the offence is committed, be condemned by said recorder to pay a fine not to exceed twenty-five ($25) dollars, or imprisonment in the parish prison for a term nob to exceed…