Legal Opinion

State v. Hunter

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 22, 1905No. 15,641PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from Twentieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafourche; Louis Philippe Caillouet, Judge. Alfred Hunter was convicted of violating the labor law, and appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

On Motion to Dismiss.

LAND, J.

Defendant was charged with the offense of violating a “labor contract,” as denounced by section 1 of Act No. 50, p. 71, of 1892, and pleaded that said statute was violative of several articles of the Constitution of the United States and of the Constitution of the state of Louisiana.

This plea was tried with the merits, and the district judge overruled the plea, and found the defendant guilty as charged. Thereupon the defendant was sentenced to pay a fine of $10, or to be imprisoned in the parish jail for six hours. Defendant had appealed, and the state has moved…

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Paul v. TabonySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
  2. State v. ShushanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1943
  3. State v. KumpfertSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1905
  4. In re BryantLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1947
  5. State v. JonesSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911

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