City of Shreveport v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Harry Wilson and another were convicted in the city court of violating a! municipal ordinance. On appeal to the district court the conviction was affirmed after a trial de novo, and they apply for writs of certiorari and prohibition.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The defendants, relators in this proceeding, were prosecuted in the city court of Shreveport, on an affidavit charging that they had occupied a room in the city “for the purpose of prostitution and assignation and for other lewd and indecent acts,” in violation of Municipal Ordinance No. 18333. Having been convicted and sentenced to pay a fine or be imprisoned, they appealed to the First Judicial District Court, parish of Caddo, where the ease was tried de novo, and the conviction and sentence were affirmed. The case is before us on a writ of certiorari.
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