State v. Bennett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from City Court of Shreveport; L. C. Blanchard, Judge. Jacie Williams Bennett was convicted of retailing intoxicating liquors without a license, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, C. J.
Defendant was charged before the city court of Shreveport, with having retailed intoxicating liquors, without first having obtained a license from the police jury of Caddo parish, and, having been convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $400, prosecutes this appeal from that sentence.
The only bill of exception which the record discloses was reserved to the refusal of the judge a quo to grant a new trial, and contains the following recitals (stated in substance) to wit:
That defendant called to the stand Ben Bernstein, who testified that he signed the affidavit upon which the prosecution is…
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