STATE v. ANCONA

No. 54662.

301 So.2d 597 (1974)

STATE of Louisiana, Respondent, v. Joseph A. ANCONA, Relator.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 11, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walton J. Barnes, II, Barnes & Barnes, Baton Rouge, for defendant-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ossie B. Brown, Dist. Atty., Bryan E. Bush, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-respondent.


TATE, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of selling beer in violation of Title 9:9 of the East Baton Rouge Parish Code and sentenced to pay a $25.00 fine. The ordinance prohibits, inter alia, retail dealers from selling, on Sunday, beer or other intoxicating liquids "containing more than six percent of alcohol by volume."

We granted supervisory certiorari because of the substantial contention that there was a total absence of proof of an essential element...

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