Case ID: ala-app_16/html/0387-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BRICKEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(77 South. 967)
    THOMPSON v. STATE.
    (3 Div. 311.)
    (Court of Appeals of Alabama.
    Feb. 5, 1918.)
    Criminal Law <&wkey;120S(3) — Sentence — Imprisonment por Default in Payment of Pine and Costs.
    "Under Code 1907, § 7634, prescribing the term of punishment on default in payment of fine and costs in misdemeanor cases, and providing that if the fine does not exceed $20. the term of imprisonment or hard labor shall be for 10 days, where the jury found defendant guilty of vagrancy as charged, and assessed a fine of $15, tlie court improperly imposed sentence, for default in payment of fine, of 30 days.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; Leon McCord, Judge.
    O. J. Thompson was convicted of vagrancy, and he appeals.
    Affirmed, and cause remanded for proper sentence.
    W. L. Martin, Atty. Gen., for the State.
   BRICKEN, J.

The defendant was indicted, tried, and convicted of the offense of being a vagrant, and from the judgment of conviction appeals to this court. This appeal is on the record; no bill of exceptions having been presented or filed. The verdict of the jury, as disclosed by tbe record, is:

“We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged and assess a fine of $15.”

Section 7634 of the Code of 1907 prescribes the term of punishment on default in payment of fine and costs in misdemeanor cases. Under this section of the Code, the court imposed an improper sentence, the. statute expressly providing that, if the fine does not exceed $20, the term of imprisonment or hard labor shall he for 10 days. The sentence imposed in this case as shown by the record was 30 days, which necessitates that the case be remanded for proper sentence as provided by law. No error of a reversible nature appears in tbe record, and tbe judgment of conviction is affirmed.

Judgment of conviction affirmed. Remanded for proper sentence.