Pivak v. State

This appeal, from a judgment imposing a fine and a short-term imprisonment at the Indiana State Farm for a misdemeanor, was filed in the Appellate Court subsequent to March 12, 1929, the date on which §1, ch. 123, Acts 1929, §2377.1 Burns Supp. 1929 became effective, being within the class of appeals covered by that law. The judgment was affirmed by the Appellate Court. Pivak v. State (1929), 92 Ind. App. 263, 168 N. E. 717. In a petition to transfer this case to the Supreme Court, petitioner (the appellant) contends that a constitutional question was involved in his appeal and that the…