Case ID: ala-app_24/html/0539-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BRICKEN, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(137 So. 678)
    RODGERS v. STATE.
    1 Div. 18.
    Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    Nov. 17, 1931.
    Thos. E. Knight, Jr., Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BRICKEN, P. J.

Ths appeal is upon the record proper only, there being no bill of exceptions. The appeal is from a judgment of conviction for the offense of violating the prohibition laws of the state.

On appeal, this court is charged with the duty of considering all questions apparent on the record or reserved by bill of exceptions. Section 3258, Code 1923. -,

As to the judgment of conviction in this case, the record appears regular and without error, and to this extent said jhdgment is affirmed. The sentence, however, is erroneous- in that the court, having adjudged that, the defendant made default .in the payment of the fine and costs, proceeded only to sentence the accused to perform hard labor for the county for seventy days in lieu.of the fine. No sentence was passed as to the costs, arid this is necessai-y to á valid seritence Option 5291, Code 1923), where the' costs ha.ve not been presently paid or judgment' confessed therefor.

The statute provides, if on conviction, judgment is rendered against the accused that he perform hard labor for the county, and if the costs are not presently paid or judgment’ confessed therefor, as provided by law, then the court may impose additional hard labor for the county for such period, not to exceed ten months, as may be sufficient to pay the costs, at the rate of seventy-five cents per day, and the court must determine the .time, required to work out such costs at that rate,’ etc.

As stated, the judgment in the record'fails' to recite a compliance with the express re-* quirements of the above statute as"to'’the’ costs.

There being no error as to the judgment'of conviction, an affirmance thereof to this extent is ordered. The cause is remanded;-to the lower court for proper sentence ás to-costs.

Affirmed; remanded for proper sentence..