State v. Treadaway
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Parish of Orleans; Frank D. Chretien, Judge. Octave Treadaway and another were indicted for miscegenation, in violation of Act No. 87 of 1908, § 1, and from a judgment of acquittal the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
The indictment in this case charges that one of the defendants is a person of Caucasian or white race, and the other “a person of the negro or Mack race, to wit, an octoroon,” and that they “did cohabit together and live in concubinage,” in violation of section 1 of Act No. 87 of 1908, which reads as follows:
‘'Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Louisiana, that concubinage' between a person of the Caucasian or white race and a person of the negro or black race is hereby made a felony, and whoever shall be convicted thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction…
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