No. 20861 Precedential Reversed, and defendant ordered discharged. Processed

State v. Joliff

Louisiana Supreme Court · Filed February 23, 1915 · 67 So. 950

Also decided on this docket: La. Ct. App. 1st Cir., May 27, 1957 95 So. 2d 386

Cited by

Parquet v. Parquet 141 So. 2d 444 La. Ct. App. 5th Cir. 1962

Opinion text

MONROE, C. J. This case presents the same questions that are presented in the cases of State v. Hagen, 67 South. 935 , 1 and State v. Whitbeck and Harris, 67 South. 949 , 2 this day decided, and is governed by the same principles of law. For the reasons assigned in those cases, therefore, the conviction and sentence herein appealed from are set aside, and the defendant ^ordered to be discharged. PROYOSTY, LAND, and O’NIELL, JJ., concur in the decree on the ground that the police jury was without authority to pass the ordinance in question. O’NIELL, J., is of the opinion that this court is without jurisdiction of the appeal, for the reasons assigned in his dissenting opinion in the case of State v. Hagen, 67 South. 942 , decided this day. Ante, p. 868. Ante, p. 896.