Aucoin v. Police Board of City of New Orleans

Sergt. Aucoin was dismissed from the police force of the city of New Orleans, and from the judgment dismissing him he appealed to this court. The sole question in the case was as to' whether, on the trial before the police board, the vote of the board sitting as judges had been taken in a legal manner. In passing upon the case this court said:

“We find nothing in the proceedings on the trial prior to the board’s final vote to call for any action on our part, but when we reach that point we do find illegality. Finding the sentence illegal, we have to set it aside, with the necessary result of…