State v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of St. James; William C. Carruth, Judge. Benjamin Harrison was charged with an offense. The indictment was quashed on demurrer, and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
The defendant is prosecuted under Act 209 of 1914, an act to punish the giving of checks, drafts, or orders on any bank or other depository wherein the person so giving such check, draft, or order shall not have sufficient funds as a credit for the payment of the same.
Defendant demurred to the information filed herein on the ground that said information, as drawn in this case, does not set out or disclose any misdemeanor or offense known to the laws of the state of Louisiana.
This demurrer was maintained by the trial judge, and the indictment quashed. The state has appealed from this judgment.
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