State v. Sanford

HIGGINS, Justice.

The four defendants were jointly tried and convicted by the district judge, under the provisions of Act No. 227 of 1934, for disturbing the peace. The judge sentenced each of them to pay a fine of $15 and the costs of the prosecution, and, in default of payment of the fine and the costs, to serve a period of thirty days’ imprisonment in the Parish Jail. They applied to this Court, under its supervisory powers, .for writs of certiorari, prohibition and mandamus. We granted the writs.

The defendants rely upon two bills of exception, which were reserved when the district judge…