Case ID: ri_25/html/0297-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Albert J. Dawley, Jr., vs. Andrew D. Wilcox.
    PROVIDENCE
    JUNE 27, 1903.
    Present: Stiness, C. J., Tillinghast and Douglas, JJ.
    (1) Power of Common Pleas Division to Sentence Defendant to Jail in any County.
    
    A defendant convicted of the illegal sale of liquor in Washington county, the penalty for which, Gen. Laws cap. 102, § 21, is, “he shall be fined twenty dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail ten days,” may, under the provisions of Gen. Laws cap. 285, §§39 and 45, be imprisoned in the jail in Providence county.
    Habeas Corpus.
    Petition denied.
   Per Curiam.

This is a petition for habeas corpus, brought against the keeper of the Providence county jail, claiming that the petitioner is illegally held in said jail, because, having been convicted of illegal sales of liquor in Washington county, the penalty for which, Gen. Laws cap. 102, § 21, is: “He shall be fined twenty dollars and be imprisoned in the county jail ten days,” does not authorize a sentence to the jail of another county.

Clarence A. Aldrich, for petitioner.

George H. Ruddy, Jr., for respondent.

The court is of opinion that Gen. Laws cap. 285, §§39 and 45, expressly authorize such a sentence.

Petition denied.