Case ID: la_159/html/0397-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LAND, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(105 So. 386)
    No. 27244.
    STATE v. PARKER.
    (July 13, 1925.)
    
      (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
    
    Criminal law <&wkey;l020—Supreme Court without appellate jurisdiction, where sentence is for $300 and imprisonment for 60 days, with further imprisonment for 8 months in default of payment of fine.,
    Under Const. 1921, art. 7, § 10, Supreme Court has no appellate jurisdiction of appeal from conviction for selling intoxicating liquor as a first offense under act No. 39 of 1921, § 3, for which sentence was imposed at a fine of $300 and imprisonment in parish jail for 60 days, and, in default of payment of fine, imprisonment for further period of 8 months; the fine not exceeding $300, and imprisonment not exceeding 6 months having been actually imposed.
    O’Niell, C. J., dissenting.
    Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Prentiss B. Carter, Judge.
    Murphy Parker was convicted of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Fred J. Heintz, of Covington, for appellant.
    Percy Saint, Atty. Gen., Percy T. Ogden, Asst. Atty. Gen., and C. S. Frederick, Dist. Atty., of Covington (E. R. Sehowalter, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for tjie State.
   LAND, J.

Defendant was found guilty of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, to wit, whisky, for beverage purposes, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 and to be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period of 60 days, and, in default of payment of fine, to be imprisoned for a further period of 8 months.

The charge against defendant is a misdemeanor, and is punishable for the first offense by fine of not more than’ $500 and imprisonment of not more than 60 days. Act 39 of 1921, § 3.

As neither a fine exceeding $300, nor imprisonment exceeding 6 months has been actually imposed, the Supreme Gourt is without appellate jurisdiction in this case. Const. 1921, art. 7, § 10; State v. Harrison, 154 La. 1011, 98 So. 622.

. It is therefore ordered that the appeal be dismissed.

.O’NXELL, C. J., dissents.