Cason v. State

Upon a presentment for public drunkenness the plaintiff in error was found guilty by the jury and the court imposed a fine of $25 and a workhouse sentence of eleven months and twenty-nine days, with a suspension of five months and twenty-nine days of this sentence pending his good behavior. The court was without power to suspend a portion of the workhouse term. Spencer v. State, 125 Tenn., 64.

Plaintiff in error was presented at the September, 1928, term and was tried at the January term following. The case was heard on January 28th. Motion for a new trial was filed the next day and overruled…