STATE v. BROADNAX

No. 39697.

45 So.2d 604 (1950)

216 La. 1003

STATE v. BROADNAX.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied March 20, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G. Wray Gill and Eugene Stanley, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Bolivar E. Kemp, Jr., Atty. General, M. E. Culligan, Asst. Atty. General, Herve Racivitch, District Atty., Robert E. Le-Corgne, Jr., Asst. District Atty., New Orleans, for appellee.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

It was charged in a bill of information that the defendant, Joseph Broadnax, "did wilfully and unlawfully possess and have under his control, a narcotic drug, to wit: six (6) capsules of heroin, a compound derivative, mixture and preparation, containing opium", which crime is denounced by Section 2 of Act No. 14 of the Second Extra Session of 1934, as amended by Section 2 of Act No. 416 of 1948, the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act. The defendant was...

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