City of Minden v. Harris

FOURNET, Justice.

Relator, Willie Harris, having been convicted in the city court of Minden for violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the possession of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, appealed to the district court for the Parish of Webster. In that court, for the first time, by way of motion to quash the affidavit under which he has been charged, the relator raised the unconstitutionality of the ordinance. The trial judge refused to consider the motion to. quash, assigning as reasons therefor that the jurisdiction of his court on appeals taken from the mayor’s or city court in…