State ex rel. Etie v. Foster

Defendant was indicted under section 908 of the Revised Statutes of 1876, providing that “whoever shall be guilty of keeping any disorderly tavern or tippling house shall suffer fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, and the offender may likewise be adjudged to forfeit his license to keep a house of public resort or entertainment.”

The indictment charged the offense simply in the words of the statute, viz., that the defendant did “in the parish of Iberia, on the 27th day of February, 1904, unlawfully keep a disorderly tavern or tippling house.”

The defendant moved to…