State v. Dalton

*546This case involves tlie power of a judge of the circuit court to remit the punishment imposed upon a convict upon trial and conviction at a former term of the court to that at which it was rendered.

The defendant, West Dalton, was indicted and arraigned at the May term, 1902, of the circuit court of Wilson county, upon a charge of petit larceny, and, entering a plea of guilty, his punishment was fixed by the jury impanelled for that purpose at confinement and hard labor in the workhouse of the cuunty for eleven months, and a judgment to this effect, and of infamy, and for the costs was…