State ex rel. Hart v. Hicks

Relator, who was defendant in the city court of Shreveport, asks this court to render a decree annulling a sentence of the city court condemning him to pay a fine of $1,000 and costs, and, in default of payment, to two years’ labor on the public road.

He was tried and convicted in the city court on an affidavit charging that he had, “without probable cause,” sent “an insulting note containing an indecent proposal to a young woman of good repute (whose name, for obvious reasons, is withheld), with intent to bring her into public contempt, and subject her to ridicule, injury, and damage.”

He was…