State v. Hollingsworth

Relator was prosecuted under an indictment, bearing the caption “State of Louisiana, Parish of De, Soto, Twelfth Judicial District Court,” and charging that he “did unlawfully sell, retail and barter spirituous and intoxicating liquors, without having first obtained a license from the police jury of De Soto parish so to do, and which police jury refused to issue such license, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.; and, having been tried before the judge, without a jury, was convicted and sentenced; whereupon, he obtained a writ of certiorari by virtue of which the record in the case has…