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WOOTON v. FARAC

No. 41597.

72 So.2d 518 (1954)

225 La. 313

Chester WOOTON, Sheriff for the Parish of Plaquemines v. Mato FARAC and Irving Hingle.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. H. Perez, New Orleans, Dist. Atty., and Rudolph M. McBride, New Orleans, and William F. Roy, Jr., Arabi, Assts. to the Dist. Atty., and Elven E. Ponder, Baton Rouge, for appellants.

Claude W. Duke, New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

McCALEB, Justice.

In this case, Chester Wooton, Sheriff of the Parish of Plaquemines, filed a rule against Mato Farac and Irving Hingle to show cause why he should not destroy six certain slot machines owned by them which were confiscated by him while located at the Delta Club in Port Sulphur, Louisiana. In due course, the defendants appeared and objected to the seizure and summary destruction of the gambling devices, contending that Act No. 231 of 1928 (now LSA-R...

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