City of Shreveport v. Moran

OVERTON, J.. An ordinance of the city of Shreveport, adopted July 7, 1864, reads,, in part, as follows:

“In all cases when any person is convicted of having committed a nuisance within the corporate limits of the city, the person so convicted shall be notified to abate the nuisance at his expense, and on failure of the person so sentenced to abate the -same, he -shall be fined in the sum of not less than $5 or more than $100 for each day that said person shall fail to comply with said sentence.”

The ordinance then directs, in general terms, the arrest of the person offending, that he be tried,…