Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Ebom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. MiNNis. The defendant in this case, Aaron Williams, was indicted for vagrancy; pleaded not guilty; was convicted, and fined ten dollars by the verdict of the jury; and the fine and costs not being paid or secured, the court sentenced him “ to perform hard labor for the county of Montgomery for ten days for the fine, and at the rate of ten cents per day for the costs until paid, making two hundred and…
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Ebom the City Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John A. MiNNis. The defendant in this case, Aaron Williams, was indicted for vagrancy; pleaded not guilty; was convicted, and fined ten dollars by the verdict of the jury; and the fine and costs not being paid or secured, the court sentenced him “ to perform hard labor for the county of Montgomery for ten days for the fine, and at the rate of ten cents per day for the costs until paid, making two hundred and forty-eight days hard labor for the costs, and two hundred and fifty-eight days in the aggregate.” The defendant objected to the…
1Opinion of the Court
MANNING, J. —
While tbe different sections' of tbe Be-vised Code should be so construed as to make them, when it can be done, harmonize with one another, to bold that one section of it must be interpreted by reference to every other, with as much critical severity as if they were sections of a single ordinary statute, would be establishing too strict a rule on tbe subject. It is well known that many acts were passed after the adoption of tbe original Code of 1852, that were supplementary to, as well as many that were merely amend-atory of its provisions. Of tbe former sort was tbe act of tbe…
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