Case ID: la_147/html/1001-01.html
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Author: {"author": "SOMMERVILLE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(86 South. 424)
    No. 24160.
    STATE v. ABRAHAM et al.
    (Nov. 3, 1920.)
    
      (Syllabus-by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Indictment and information &wkey;>l40(2) — Necessity of showing police jury ordinance upon trial of motion to quash.
    On state’s appeal from a judgment quashing an information, where the police jury ordinance under which it was brought appears in the record, but does not appear to have been offered in evidence on trial of motion to quash, the judgment will be affirmed.
    Appeal from Twentieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Terrebonne; H. M. Wallis, Jr., Judge.
    Joseph Abraham and others were informed against for gambling with cards, contrary to a police jury ordinance. From a judgment quashing the information, the State appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      A. Y. .Coco, Atty. Gen., J. A. O. Coignet, Dist. Atty., of Thibodaux (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
    Harris Gagne, of Houma, for appellees.
   SOMMERVILLE, J.

The state appeals from the judgment quashing an information against these defendants for having gambled with cards, contrary to an ordinance of the police jury of Terrebonne parish.

The motion to quash was based on the allegation:

“That there was no statute of the state of Louisiana or the Police Jury of the parish of Terrebonne or of the municipality of the city of Houma under which the accused can be prosecuted.”

There is a copy of the ordinance of the police jury of the parish of Terrebonne prohibiting gambling with cards, etc., in the record, but it does not appear to have been offered in evidence on the trial of the motion to quash.

There being no error apparent on the face of the record, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.