Pennix v. Webster Parish Police Jury

ÓDÓM, Justice.'

By ordinance adopted February 2, 1937, the Police Jury of Webster Parish called a local option election to be held in ward 3 of that parish to take the sense of the qualified electors therein on the question “whether or not the business of selling alcoholic and intoxicating liquors should be licensed or permitted.”

The specific proposition submitted to the electors was printed on the ballot, which was in the following form:

“1: For licensing and permitting ' the business of selling alcoholic and intoxicating liquors.

“2: Against licensing and permitting the business of selling…