State v. Trapp

The defendant was convicted of violating a provision of Act No. 176 of 1908, popularly known as the Gay-Shattuck Law, by permitting a girl aged 14 years to serve in a barroom conducted by him. He was sentenced to pay a fine of $200, or, in the alternative, to serve 6 months’ imprisonment in the parish jail. And, as it was charged in the bill of information and proven on the *427trial that he had been previously convicted of violating the same statute by selling intoxicating liquor to a child aged 13 years, the court, in sentencing the defendant for this second offense, revoked his permit and…