State ex rel. Perilloux v. Wilder

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

The complaint is that relator is denied the right of appeal, and the writ of mandamus is invoked to compel the granting of the same.

It appears that in May, 1897, the relator was charged before the mayor’s court of the town of Slidell, parish of St. Tammany, with the violation of a municipal ordinance prohibiting any one from conducting the business of retail liquor dealer without having previously obtained a license.

On the trial he excepted to the power and jurisdiction of the court upon various grounds, among others that the ordinance in…