Blanchard v. Gauthier

LANDRY, Judge.

This appeal presents for determination the question whether a permit may lawfully issue for the sale of alcoholic beverages (beer) within the confines of an area of a parish duly voted a “dry ward” and thereafter incorporated into a larger “wet ward” wherein the sale of alcoholic beverages has not been prohibited by local option election.

Defendant, Millard Gauthier, timely applied to the State of Louisiana, and the Parish of East Baton Rouge, for permits for the calendar years 1964 and 1965 to sell beverages of low alcoholic content, (less than six per cent (6%) alcohol by…