Jones v. State

At the June, 1928, term of the circuit court of Marion county, Pete Jones (known also as Sydney Jones) was convicted on a charge of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and serve thirty days in the county jail, and was also required, by order of the court imposing the sentence, to give a peace bond in the penal sum of two thousand five hundred dollars for good behavior for a term of two years, and from this conviction and the sentence imposed he has prosecuted this appeal.

It appears from the evidence that the sheriff had…