State v. Jackson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

Defendant was prosecuted criminally for selling at retail spirituous and intoxicating liquors without license.

From a judgment of conviction and the imposition of a fine of three hundred and five dollars, he appeals.

It appears that an election was held in 1886, under the direction of the Police Jury, throughout the parish of Union, to take the sense of *437the voters on the question of issuing or withholding license for the sale of intoxicating liquors.

A majority against license was returned.

No question of the legality of the election; or of…