Carver v. State

The plaintiff in error, Clifford Carver, was convicted of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquors and was sentenced to serve sixty days in the Macon County Jail, and to pay a fine in the amount of $250.00. After his motion for a new trial was overruled, he appealed to this Court and assigned four errors, which will not be considered because of the disposition we now make of this case.

At the Bar of the Court, counsel for the plaintiff in error suggested the death of Carver during the pendency of the appeal. If his sentence consisted only of a jail term, any consideration of the merits of…