STATE v. GANTT

No. 51990.

269 So.2d 809 (1972)

263 La. 907

STATE of Louisiana v. Mildred GANTT.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

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, and 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.

The defendant Mildred Gantt was charged with selling beer in Ward 5 of Claiborne Parish in violation of an ordinance of that parish of November 5, 1941, prohibiting the sale or keeping for sale of alcoholic beverages having a content of more than one-half of one per cent alcohol by volume. Upon conviction she was sentenced to serve four months in the parish jail and to pay a fine of $400.00. She has appealed.

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