Case ID: iowa_19/html/0458-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wright, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State of Iowa v. Patton.
    1. Practice: modification of sentence. The Supreme Court will not modify tho sentence of a court helow, in a criminal cause, when the record does not disclose the circumstances attending the commission of the offense.
    2. Intemperance: penalty fob drunkenness. The language of the statute (Rev., 1860, §§ 1568, 1586) seems to be imperative that thirty days imprisonment shall form a part of the punishment for intoxication.
    
      Appeal from Mahaska District Court.
    
    Friday, January 12.
    The material facts appear in the opinion.
    
      Z. T. Fisher for the appellant.
    
      Isaac L. Allen, Attorney-General, for the State.
   Wright, J.

Defendant was tried and convicted for being “ found in a state of intoxication,” fined ten dollars, and ordered to be imprisoned in the county jail thirty days. On this appeal, he only asks us to modify the judgment, so far as to remit the imprisonment. The record does not in any way advise as of the circumstances attending the commission of the offense, and hence we have no grounds upon which to base the proposed modification. Then again, the language of the statute seems to be imperative (Rev., §§ 1568, 1586), that thirty days imprisonment shall form a part of the punishment.

We see no ground upon which we would be justified in changing the order of the court below, and it is therefore affirmed.

Affirmed.