Kemp v. Meads

Meads was convicted under an indictment charging him with being drunk upon the highway, and the 'following sentence was thereupon imposed upon him by the court, to wit: “Whereupon it is ordered and adjudged by the court, that the defendant G. T. Meads do work in the chain-gang on the public roads or such other public works as the county or State authorities may employ the chain-gang of said county, for the term of six months from the reception of the said defendant in said chain-gang, the said defendant to remain in the common jail of said county until set to work by said county or State…