Guin v. City of Tuscaloosa

The appellant, being first convicted in the recorder’s court of violating an ordinance of the city of Tuscaloosa prohibiting the traffic, etc'., in forbidden liquors, took an appeal to the circuit court, where the jury found him guilty and assessed a fine of $75. On sentence, the court imposed upon him an additional penalty of 6 months at hard labor for the city. This appeal, in addition to presenting other matters that we will later advert to, brings into question the authority of the court to impose the additional penalty, where, as here, the jury imposed a fine only. In order to get this…