State v. White

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, Charleston White, having been sentenced “to serve fifteen days in the parish jail and to pay a fine of three hundred ($300.00) dollars and, in default of payment of the fine, to serve an additional six months in the parish jail” on his conviction for violation of the State Gambling Statute, R.S. 14:90, this court is without appellate jurisdiction since the imprisonment actually imposed1 does not *414exceed six months and the fine does not exceed $300.00;2 and, furthermore, we lack authority to transfer this case3 to the Thirty-First Judicial District Court to…