Case Name: STATE of Louisiana v. Henry SIMPSON
Court: Superior Court of Louisiana
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1925-01-05
Citations: 157 La. 620
Docket Number: No. 26919
Parties: STATE of Louisiana v. Henry SIMPSON.
Judges: LAND and THOMPSON, JJ., concur in decree.
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 157
Pages: 619–621

Head Matter:
(102 So. 813)
No. 26919.
STATE of Louisiana v. Henry SIMPSON.
(Jan. 5, 1925.)
Appeal from Second Judicial District Court, Parish of Bossier; Robert Roberts, Jr., Judge.
Murff & Perkins, of Shreveport, for appellant.
Percy Saint, Atty. Gen., R. H. Lee, Dist. Atty., of Minden, and Percy T. Ogden, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Bernard Cocke, of New Orleans, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
O'NIELL, O. J.
Appellant was convicted of the offense of having intoxicating liquor in his possession for beverage purposes. It was the whisky that we referred to in the case No. 26920, 102 So. 810,r jn which appellant was accused of manufacturing the liquor. The cases are otherwise alike and were decided on the same evidence.
For the reasons given in the case No. 26920, 102 So. 810, decided today, the conviction in this case is annulled, and the case is ordered remanded for a new trial.
LAND and THOMPSON, JJ., concur in decree.
Ante, p. 614.