State v. Buchardt

Defendant was charged in the information with petit larceny, in that he stole some hams and bacon worth $8. For this appropriation of another’s goods, he, having pleaded guilty, was fined in the sum of $100 and sentenced to the workhouse of the city of St. Louis for the term of one year. From this judgment he appealed to the St. Louis Court of Appeals, by which court this cause was transferred to *84this court on the ground that it involved a constitutional question.

Section 3547, Revised Statutes 1889, provides that petit larceny shall be punished “by imprisonment in the county jail not…