State v. Valentine

HAMITER, Justice.

Defendant, Wilson Valentine, was convicted and sentenced under an indictment charging that he “did wilfully and unlawfully possess, offer and keep for sale intoxicating liquors, containing more than six per cent alcohol by volume, for beverage purposes, in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana * * *»

The law allegedly violated by him is a police jury ordinance which provides in part that “whoever shall sell, or keep for sale, any intoxicating liquors for beverage-purposes in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana; shall, on conviction, be punished * *

Following the conviction and sentence defendant…