Alexander v. Walton

Sidney Alexander was tried and convicted in the county court of Putnam county, for carrying a pistol without a license — a misdemeanor offense under the Penal Code. Acts 1910, p. 134; Park’s Ann. Code, § 348 (a). The sentence imposed upon the defendant was as follows: “Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the court that the defendant, Sidney Alexander, do pay a fine of fifty dollars and the costs of this prosecution, and in default thereof that he be confined in the chain-gang for the term of twelve months, to be computed from the time he is received in the said chain-gang, and that he…