State v. Goff

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

The defendant was indicted for interfering with a labor contract. The statute denounces as a misdemeanor the inticing or inducing away of a laborer from his employer, or the place rented, before the expiration of his contract, upon which money or goods have been advanced, without first tendering to the person by whom the advances are made the rent or the value of the goods advanced. The penalty consists of a fine in a sum not less than ten, nor more than two hundred dollars, and in default of payment, imprisonment a stated number of days is…