The patriot. (Glenmora, La.) 1918-1955, 1922-06-16
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HELD VALID
MANY CASES ON APPEAL AFFECT
ED By SWEEPING DECISION
OF THE SUPREME COURT
FIFTY CASES PENDING
Terms For Violations In Various
Parts Of The State.

Baton Rouge-Approxima 200
men and women convicted of violat
ing the state prohibition law, known
as the Hood bill, must begin serving
prison terms and pay fines in various
parts of the state as the result Of a
supreme court decision denying re,
hearing in the case of F. c. Coco.
The constitutionality of the law had
been attacked by Coco and numerous
others convicted in the district courts
and virtually all sentences were held
up pending the outcome Of these cases.
The high court upheld validity of the
bill month ago, but sentences were
held up a second time pending the
outcome of the application for. re-
hearing.
Approximately fifty cases had been
to the higher court contrasting the va
lidity of the bill and alleging improper
methods Of indictment and other
causes for annulling the lower courts
decisions.
The supreme court consolidated all
contentious attacking the law on con-
stitutionaI grounds and decided these
in the Coco case, appealed from Alex
andria. Sentences and fines were an
nulled in several cases by the high
court, but for reasons other than the
constitutionality of the act.
The cases of Fluker Blue and others
appealed from Tangipahoa parish
were remanded to the lower court for
another trial on grounds of improper
indictment.
Bills rectifying the sections of the
law which the higher court said might
be faulty in grammatical construction,
but legal, have been introduced in the
Legislature and are expected to pass
The provision in the bill, declaring it
not violation of the law for a person
TO manufacture beer and wine in his
home for the use of his family or his
bonafide guests, will be retained in
the bill, it was said
Monroe.-A survey of property
along the Ouachita river in Caldwell
parish and other points south of Mon
roe will be made within short time
under the direction of the state board
Of engineers for the purpose of de-
termining whether it is advisable to
build levee on the Ouachita river to
protect farms and property from an
overflow.
afayette-Lafayette has been Sc
lected as the location for the zone Of
fee Of the international revenue SER
vice for the zone comprising Lafay-
cite, st. Martin, Iberia, st. Mary and
Vermilion parishes and Jay Davidson,
recently appointed deputy collector,
has been assigned to the zone In
charge Of the local office
Baton Rouge-Seed distribution to
flood sufferers of Louisiana from the
$4,000 fund made available for that
purpose will be only to persons who
have been receiving rations from the
state relief committee, w. P. Cornell,
chairman of the committee, announced
after conference with w. R. Dodson,
dean Of the agricultural college.
Lafayette. 200 members of
the boys and girls clubs of the par
ish held their annual outing at Beau
Sc Jour on the banks of the Vermilion.
The program included a basket picnic,
athletics and water sports. The out
ing was in charge of v. A. Guidroz,
parish agent, and Miss Caroline NJ
Boudreau, parish home demonstration
agent, with DR.. F. e. Birard assisting
Baton Rouge.-Passage by the Sem
ate Of the anti-betting bill has made the
House the battle ground between the
contending forces who are warning
over the question of whether race
track gambling shall be banished from
Louisiana.
Baton Rouge.-Company D, the
prize-winning company of the reserve
officers training corps battalion, Louis
lana State University, for 1921, repeat |
ed its performance of last year by
again winning the inter-company COM
petitive drill at Baton Rouge.
Monroe,-A warrant for the arrest |
Of A. Coleman, former president of |
the Louisiana Bank and Trust Com
pany of Monroe, which recently was
ordered closed by the state bank ex-
aminer, charging him with embezzle-
ment of $4,000, was sworn out here.
Alexandria.-The Louisiana state
food relief committee shipped to the
American Red Cross at Rhinehar. an
emergency shipment of one carload |
OF -four, one carload Of meal, one car
load Of meat and one carload of COT
fee, sugar. condensed milk and syrup. |
Alexandria.-Two hundred flood re-
fugees in the Rhinehart (La.) camp.
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