Spellings v. State

Defendant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Gibson County of an assault and bat*202tery, and fined $250, and sentenced to jail for six months. He appealed to this Court, and the judgment of the lower Court was affirmed at the last term. Afterward the Governor of the State granted him a pardon in the usual form. The pardon was presented in the Court below, upon a hearing of the procedendo from this Court, and was set up by plea in discharge and release of said fine and imprisonment and all the consequences of said conviction. The Court thereupon adjudged that the defendant was, by the pardon,…