City of Crowley v. Brande

MONROE, -J.

Defendant was charged, by affidavit, before the city court of Crowley, with keeping a house for gambling purposes and allowing gambling to he carried on there, and he moved to quash the affidavit, on the ground that the ordinance under which he was prosecuted has never been legally passed, published, or promulgated, as required by law, and that it does not cover the offense charged, which motion was overruled. Thereafter, as we are informed by a bill of exception that we find in the record, defendant pleaded to the charge, the case went' to trial, the city of Crowley introduced the…