Carter v. State

In this case, the appellant, James F. Carter, plead guilty in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Alabama, on October 17, 1974, to the charge of assaulting an officer while in the performance of his lawful duties and was sentenced in open court to a fine of $100.00 and a term of three months imprisonment in the county jail, the jail sentence to be served for forty-five days of time with a ten day release period intervening.

Without dispute the appellant paid the fine and reported on December 2, 1974, to the sheriff of Jackson County to commence serving his sentence. Without dispute the…