Case ID: la_143/html/0652-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LECHE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(79 South. 209)
    No. 23124.
    STATE v. HIGHTOWER.
    (June 29, 1918.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Criminal Law <&wkey;>1182 — Confession of Error^-Affirmance.
    Where the brief of the Attorney General on an appeal by the state from a judgment quashing the information alcknowledges the trial court’s ruling to be right and virtually abandons the appeal, the judgment for that reason will be affirmed.
    Appeal from Fourth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lincoln; J. B. Crow, Judge.
    
      J. R. Hightower was indicted for having willfully, unlawfully and knowingly caused the transportation of a named woman through and across the state through a portion of the parish of Lincoln for the purpose of prostitution, and with the intent to induce and compel her to become a prostitute. From a judgment quashing the information, the State appeals.
    Affirmed.
    A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., and H. B. Warren, Dist. Atty., of Ruston (Vernon A. Coco, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State. John B. Holstead, of Ruston, for appellee.
   LECHE, J.

The present appeal is taken by the state from a judgment quashing an information. The brief of the Attorney General acknowledges that the ruling of the trial court accords with his opinion, and he has therefore virtually abandoned the appeal, and for this reason, the judgment appealed from is affirmed.