State v. Bradford

McCALEB, Justice.

Margarete Bradford was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor for purposes of sale in Sabine Parish and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and costs. On appeal, she specifies three alleged errors of the trial judge as grounds for annulment of her conviction.

The initial complaint, raised by motion in arrest of judgment, is that the prohibition ordinance of Sabine Parish was repealed by the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, Act No. 2 of the Extraordinary Session of 1950.

The ordinance was passed on November 14th 1934, 1 following a local option election held in Sabine Parish…