STATE v. BEENE

No. 51988.

269 So.2d 794 (1972)

263 La. 865

STATE of Louisiana v. Evelyn BEENE.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing November 6, 1972.

Rehearing Denied December 11, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Harmon Drew, Minden, for defendant-appellant.

William J. Guste, Jr., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Harry H. Howard, Asst. Attys. Gen., Hal R. Henderson, John A. Richardson, Ragan D. Madden, Dist. Attys., E. Rudolph McIntyre, Dist. Atty. Fifth Judicial District, W. C. Falkenheiner, Dist. Atty. Seventh Judicial Dist., Sam L. Wells, Dist. Atty. Eighth Judicial Dist., Edwin O. Ware, Dist. Atty. Ninth Judicial Dist., Melvin P. Barre, Dist. Atty. Twenty-ninth Judicial Dist., for plaintiff-appellee.

Hamlet D. May, Baton Rouge, amicus curiae.


BARHAM, Justice.

This defendant was convicted of selling beer in Ward 3 of Claiborne Parish in violation of Ordinance No. 100 of the Claiborne Parish Police Jury passed January 6, 1943, and sentenced to pay a fine of $400.00 with a suspended jail sentence of four months. During the trial court proceedings two bills of exceptions were reversed, one to the overruling of the motion to quash and the other to the denial of the motion in arrest of judgment. These two bills...

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