Court Opinion

ID: 3238864
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:12:41.30152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:30.181625
License: Public Domain

Appellant was regularly indicted and tried for the offense denounced by Code 1923, § 5411. The jury trying the case returned a verdict as follows: "We the jury find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment." Whereupon, and over appellant's protest, the trial judge proceeded to "fix the punishment" and to sentence the appellant. This was in contravention of the plain terms of the statute (Code 1923, § 5411, supra), which are that one convicted, as appellant, be punished (within certain limits) "at the discretion of thejury." (Italics ours.) And for this unauthorized and erroneous action of the court, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded. Code 1923, § 5411; Ex parte Heabern Tanner, 219 Ala. 7,121 So. 423.
No other questions are apparent.
Reversed and remanded. *Page 107