Malone v. Sale

The plaintiffs in rule, eight in number, were charged by bills of information in the Second District Court, Claiborne Parish, with wilfully and unlawfully keeping for sale alcoholic beverages and intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, which, it was also charged, "was prohibited by ordinance of the Police Jury of Claiborne Parish".

Each defendant pleaded guilty to the charge against him and was fined by the Court. The fines were promptly paid. A few hours thereafter the judge in open court directed the sheriff to destroy the liquor found in the possession of the defendants respectively,…