Case ID: la_136/html/0901-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MONROE, O. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(67 South. 951)
    No. 20836.
    STATE v. NEJIN.
    (Feb. 23, 1915.
    Rehearing Denied March 22, 1915.)
    Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Oaddo; J. R. Land, Judge.
    F. A. Nejin was convicted of violating an ordinance of a police jury, and appeals.
    Reversed, and defendant discharged.
    Scheen & Blanchard and E. P. Mills, all of Shreveport, for appellant. R. G. Pleasant, Atty. Gen., and W. A. Mabry, Dist. Atty., of Shreveport (G. A. Gondran, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
   MONROE, O. J.

This case presents the same questions that are presented in the cases of State v. Hagen, 67 South. 935,3 and State v. Whitbeck and Harris, 67 South. 949,4 this day decided, and is governed by the same principles of law. For the reasons assigned in those cases, therefore, the conviction and sentence heroin appealed from is set aside, and the defendant ordered to be discharged.

PROYOSTY, LAND, and O’NIELL. JJ., concur in the decree on the ground that the police jury was without authority to pass the ordinance in question.

O’NIELL, J., is of the opinion that this court is without jurisdiction, for the reasons assigned in his dissenting opinion in State v. Hagen, 67 South. 942, decided this day.