Case ID: la_104/html/0037-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blanchard, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 13,627.
    State of Louisiana vs. J. B. Atkins et al.
    Syllabus.
    Act No. 71 of the Acts of 1894, the title of which is: “To encourage the freedom of trade and to forbid the issuance by merchants or corporations of tickets redeemable only in goods at their place of business,” is held to be unconstitutional on the ground that its title indicates, and the act itself embraces, two or more distinct objects.
    APPEAL from the Eleventh Judicial District, Parish of Bed Eiver —Porter, J.
    
      Walter Guión, Attorney General, and W. A. Wilkinson, District Attorney, (Lewis Guión, of Counsel,) for Plaintiff, Appellant.
    
      Alexander & Wilkinson for Defendant, Appellee.
   The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

Defendants were indicted, under Act 71 of 1894, for unlawfully issuing' tickets and cheeks redeemable only in goods at their place of business.

They appeared by counsel and moved to quaish the indictment on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the statute, setting forth in what particulars they deemed it unconstitutional and what provisions of the Constitution it infringed.

Erom a judgment sustaining the motion to quash, the State appeals.

The case is identical in its facts and law with that of the State of Louisiana vs. G. R. Eerguson et als, No. 13,625 on the docket of this court, just decided^ and for the reasons set forth in the opinion handed down in that case, the judgment herein is affirmed.

The Chief Justice, and Breaux, J., concur in the decree.