BACCUS v. LOUISIANA

No. 170.

232 U.S. 334 (1914)

BACCUS v. STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Thomas D. O'Brien, with whom Mr. John A. Barnes was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. R.G. Pleasant, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, and Mr. G.A. Gondran for defendant in error, submitted.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

We accept the construction affixed by the court below to the statute and upon which alone it could in reason have held that the acts charged were embraced by its provisions. We hence disregard an intimation made in the argument of the defendant in error, that the statute is susceptible of a different interpretation and therefore...

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