Mayor of Baton Rouge v. Malverhill

The defendant has been fined fifty dollars by the Mayor of said city, “ for selling and retailing liquors without a license.”

The defendant excepted to the jurisdiction of the Mayor’s court on the ground, that he could only be prosecuted by indictment or information, and that’he is entitled to a trial by jury, and that all Acts of the Legislature vesting the May- or’s court with jurisdiction in such cases, are in violation of Art. 103 of the Constitution of the State of Louisiana.

There is also a bill of exception to the ruling of the Mayor’s court in admiting in evidence a judgement in another…