Case Name: STATE v. McALLISTER, and seven other cases
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1922-05-15
Citations: 151 La. 595
Docket Number: Nos. 25195-25202
Parties: STATE v. McALLISTER, and seven other cases.
Judges: By the WHOLE COURT. '
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 151
Pages: 595–595

Head Matter:
(92 South. 128)
Nos. 25195-25202.
STATE v. McALLISTER, and seven other cases.
(May 15, 1922.)
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge.
C. M. McAllister, John Clark, Ed. Bickford, Miss Willie Rogers, Fluker Blue, Blaze Polite, Ed. Randal, and Dave Story were convicted of selling intoxicating liquors, and they appeal.
Conviction and sentence in each case set aside, information quashed, and defendant discharged.
Ponder & Ponder, of Franklinton, for appellants.
A. V. Coco, Atty. Gen., and M. J. Allen, Dist. Atty., of Amite (T. S. Walmsley, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.
By the WHOLE COURT. '

Opinion:
THOMPSON, J.
In each of the above styled and-numbered cases the information contains the same charge and is subject to the identical omission and fatal defect as the information in case No. 25194, State v. Henry Bulloch, ante, p. 593, 92 South. 127, this day decided.
For the reasons given in the last-mentioned case, it is ordered and decreed that the conviction and sentence in each of the above styled and numbered cases be set aside, the information quashed, and each of the defendants discharged.