Case Name: STATE v. RICKS. In re RICKS
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1926-11-02
Citations: 162 La. 265
Docket Number: No. 28127
Parties: STATE v. RICKS. In re RICKS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 162
Pages: 265–265

Head Matter:
(110 So. 416)
No. 28127.
STATE v. RICKS. In re RICKS.
(Nov. 2, 1926.)
Shelby Taylor, of Baton Rouge, and Moss & Moss, for relator.

Opinion:
ROGERS, J.
Relator seeks relief from a conviction under an information based upon Rev. Stat.' § 818, charging that he "did, without any legal right so to do, take possession of a part of the right of way, belonging to the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company, a private corporation,' said portion of the right of.way, so taken, being contiguous to and adjoining Corn street, in Dixie, a suburb of the city of Baton Rouge."
In a motion in arrest of judgment, yelator alleges that the information is defective and not in conformity with the stat"ute, in that it fails to charge that his possession of the land did not continue for one year, without disturbance.
The district judge, in his return to the order issued by this court, calls attention to the fact, that the information was filed on the 24th day of June, 1926, and that it sets forth the date on which relator took possession of the property was June 11, 1926. Since the specific date of relator's offense is alleged in the information, and as said date is well within the year of filing the charge, the omission of the words of the statute complained of in the. motion in arrest is immaterial. The facts alleged constituted the crime charged and were sufficiently definite to apprise relator of the accusation he was called upon to answer.
For the reasons assigned, the rule nisi herein issued is discharged at relator's cost.