State v. Sibley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Livingston; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Lem Sibley was indicted for an offense, and from a judgment quashing the indictment the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSt. Paul, J.
The charge against defendant was that—
Pie “willfully and unlawfully did put up at the boarding house of Mrs. Z. T. Richardson, and did procure food and boarding in the amount of $44, with the intent to cheat and defraud the said Mrs. Richardson out of the same, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.
The defendant moved to quash on the grounds: (1) That said indictment charges no offense under the law; and (2) that, if the court should hold otherwise, then that Act 12 of 1912, under which the state is attempting to proceed, is unconstitutional, null, and void, “because it is an attempt to…
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