Case ID: la_190/html/0306-01.html
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Author: {"author": "ODOM, Justice. ROGERS, Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

182 So. 515
    STATE of Louisiana v. August GUCHEREAU.
    No. 34713.
    March 7, 1938.
    On Rehearing May 30, 1938.
    For opinion on rehearing, see 190 La. 266, 182 So. 502.
    Harold J. Moore, of New Orleans, for appellant.
    Gaston L. Porterie, Atty. Gen., George M. Wallace and Richard A. Dowling, Sp.
    
      Assts. to Atty. Gen., and Charles A. Byrne, Dist. Atty., and Sidney A. Mitchell, both of New Orleans, for the State.
   ODOM, Justice.

The defendant was convicted of violating Section 12, Act No. 48 of 1936, in that he charged less for his services as a barber than the minimum prices fixed by the Board of Barber Examiners for the Judicial District in which he operates. He was fined $301.00 and costs, and, in default of his payment of the fine and costs, was ordered to be confined in the parish prison for seven months. He appealed.

In limine defendant filed a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that the law under which the prosecution was brought is unconstitutional. The motion to quash was overruled and the law upheld by the trial judge.

In the case of Board of Barber Examiners v. Noah Parker, 190 La. 214, 182 So. 485, this day decided, we held that Section 12, Act No. 48 of 1936, is unconstitutional.

It is therefore ordered that the indictment against defendant be quashed, that the conviction and sentence be set aside, and that defendant be discharged.

ROGERS and PONDER, JJ., dissent.

LAND, J., dissents and hands down reasons.

For dissenting opinion, see 190 La. 243, 182 So. 494.

ROGERS, Justice

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion and decree in this case. My reasons for dissenting herein will be found in my dissenting opinion filed in the case of Board of Barber Examiners v. Parker, 190 La. 214, 182 So. 485.