State v. Verret

HAMITER, Justice.

A bill of information filed by the district attorney for the Parish of St. Mary charged that Everett Verret and Huey John Ohmar, on August 5, 19'55, “Possessed a device manually controlled and operated, without explosives, under circumstances which indicated that said possession was for the purpose of illegally taking commercial fish, in violation of the provisions of LSA-R.S. 56:366 of the State of Louisiana * * To it the defendants tendered two separate motions to quash.

In the first motion they urged that the statute under which the charge was made, Act 194 of 1952 which…