State v. White

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The defendants are appealing from a conviction and sentence for “handling and distributing” intoxicating liquor, in violation of an ordinance of the Police Jury of Lincoln Parish, known as the Local Option Ordinance.

There are four bills of exception in the record, but the only one that we have to consider is one which was reserved to the overruling of a motion in arrest of judgment. The district attorney has moved to dismiss the appeal as far as the three other bills are concerned because they refer to complaints which, if well founded, would only entitle the defendants…