Case ID: la_124/html/0669-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LAND, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(50 South. 647.)
    No. 17,799.
    STATE v. PRICE et al.
    (Nov. 15, 1909.)
    Criminal Law (§ 1020*) — Courts (§ 224*)— Appeal — Jurisdiction op Supreme Court.
    The Supreme Court has no appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases, where the offense charged is not punishable by death or imprisonment at hard labor, except where “a fine exceeding three hundred dollars or imprisonment exceeding six months is actually imposed.” Const. 1898, art. 85. The mere raising of a constitutional question in a criminal case does not vest the Supreme Court with appellate jurisdiction. Id.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 25S0; Dee. Dig. § 1020;* Courts, Dec. Dig. § 224.*]
    (Syllabus by the Court.)
    Appeal from Twentj'-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Charles A. O'Niell, Judge.
    Frank and Fielden Price were convicted of ■selling liquors to women, and for selling to both whites and negroes, and appeal.
    Dismissed.
    D. Caffery, Jr., James R. Parkerson, and Emmet Alpha, for appellants. Walter Guión, Atty. Gen., and T. 11. Milling, Dist. Atty. <R. G. Pleasant, of counsel), for the State.
   LAND, J.

Defendants were indicted in one ■count for selling or permitting to be sold in their licensed saloon intoxicating liquors to women, and in another count for selling or permitting the sale of intoxicating liquors for consumption on the premises to both whites and negroes.

The defendants were tried and found guilty ■on the first count, and .not guilty on the second count. Each of the defendants was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and the costs of ■court, and in default of payment of the fine to imprisonment in the parish jail for 30 days.

Defendants have appealed, and the state has moved to dismiss the appeal on the .ground of want of jurisdiction in the Supreme Court.

As the fine imposed does not exceed $300, •or the alternative imprisonment exceed 6 months, this court has no jurisdiction of the •case. Const. 1898, art. 85. The mere raising ■of a constitutional question in a criminal case does not vest jurisdiction in the Supreme Court. Id.

It is therefore ordered that this appeal be ■dismissed.