Hardy v. Stevenson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Morgan, J.

In Leovy’s Digest of City Laws, page 323, article 680, is found the following ordinance: “ It is unlawful to abuse, provoke, or disturb any person, to make charivari, or to appear masked or disguised in the streets, or in any public place.”

On the seventeenth of September, 1873, John A. Stevenson, the defendant, went before the then recorder of the First District and made the following affidavit: ■

“John A. Stevenson, Upper City Hotel, who having been duly sworn doth depose and say that on the seventeenth day of September, 1873, on Gravier…