Legal Opinion

State v. Hincy

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided March 25, 1912No. 19,273PublishedCited by 28 opinions

Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; Wm. Campbell, Judge. Information by the State against Tom Hincy. A motion to quash the information was sustained, and the State appeals.

1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.

The state of Louisiana, through her prosecuting officer, in a bill of information, charged the defendant, Tom Hincy, an employs and field manager of the Crowley Oil & Mineral Company, with willfully and knowingly draining, or permitting to be drained, the waters from the wells, reservoirs, or tanks of the Crowley Oil & Mineral Company salt water into a freshwater stream or drain leading to Bayou Des Cannes, in the parish of Acadia, through which stream water is pumped for irrigating rice.

The defendant pleaded autrefois acquit.

As this plea was not mentioned by defendant in argument, we refer…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. DusonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1912

3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Ricks v. Department of State Civil ServiceSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1942
  2. State Ex Rel. Porterie v. Housing Authority of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1938
  3. Stewart v. StanleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941
  4. State Ex Rel. Porterie v. SmithSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1935
  5. Peck v. City of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1941

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