Court Opinion

ID: 5149368
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:49:28.990711+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:51:20.260870
License: Public Domain

[1] MEMORANDUM OPINION
[2] Plaintiff in Error, James Burton Baker, hereafter referred to as defendant, was convicted in the District Court of Lincoln County in case number CRM-69-297, for reckless driving. Defendant, without assistance of counsel, entered a plea of guilty and was assessed a fine of $125.00, plus court costs, and sentenced to serve ten (10) days in the county jail. After posting cash bail of $400.00, defendant was released for one week but ordered to commence his confinement September 15, 1969. From that judgment and sentence this appeal was lodged.
[3] From the record and briefs filed herein, this Court is of the opinion that the sentence imposed on defendant herein is excessive.
[4] Therefore, the judgment and sentence imposed in CRM-69-297, in Lincoln County, *Page 771 
is hereby modified to a fine of $125.00 and court costs, and as modified the judgment and sentence is affirmed.
[5] NIX, J., concurs.