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STATE v. ELLIS

No. 51989.

269 So.2d 808 (1972)

263 La. 904

STATE of Louisiana v. Mary ELLIS.

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., Atty. Gen., Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., Harry H. Howard, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hal R. Henderson, John A. Richardson, Regan D. Madden, Dist. Attys., E. Rudolph McIntyre, Dist. Atty. Fifth Judicial Dist., 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, amicus curiae.

BARHAM, Justice.

Mary Ellis, charged with selling beer in Ward 3 of Claiborne Parish in violation of Ordinance No. 100 of that parish passed January 6, 1943, was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $400.00, with a suspended jail sentence of four months. On this appeal she relies upon bills of exceptions taken to the overruling of her motion to quash and motion in arrest of judgment.

This case raises the identical issue of unconstitutionality of Ordinance...

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