State v. Sliger

McCALEB, Chief Justice.

Paul B. Sliger and Patricia L. Broussard were charged with having possessed a controlled dangerous substance, to-wit, marijuana, with intent to distribute. Defendants’ motion to quash the bill was sustained and the State is appealing from that ruling.

The charge is brought under the provisions of Act 457 of 1970 (R.S. 40:961, et seq.)

Two reasons were urged in support of the motion to quash. The first was that the authority granted to the Board -of Health of the State is so broad that it is violative “of the defendants’ constitutional rights, in that it does not afford…