State v. Brinson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Richland; John R. McIntosh, Judge. Bill Brinson was prosecuted by information for bringing into prohibition territory a quantity of whisky prohibited by law, and from judgment quashing the bill of information the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The state has appealed from a judgment quashing a bill of information accusing defendant of bringing into prohibition territory a quantity of whisky prohibited by law. The motion to quash was founded mainly upon the ground that the statute which defendant was accused of having violated, Act 23 of the Extra Session of 1915, was superseded and in effect repealed by the eighteenth article of amendment of the Constitution of the United States and by the National Prohibition Act (41 Stat. 305).
The parish of Richland, into which defendant was accused of bringing the forbidden quantity of whisky,…
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