State v. Ryder

Tine opinion of the Court was delivered by ■

Todd, J.

The defendant was convicted of inflicting a wound less than mayhem and sentenced (quoting): “ to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, inclusive of costs of prosecution, and to suffer imprisonment at hard labor, in the State penitentiary, for the term of two years, and in default of payment of said fine at the expiration of said sentence, to suffer additional imprisonment at hard labor, in the State penitentiary, for one year, and to pay costs of prosecution.”

The conviction was on an information signed by the assistant district attorney and…