Jones v. State

The appellant, Sidney Jones, filed a petition for habeas corpus before the circuit judge of the district in which Marion couiity is situated, alleging that he was a resident citizen of Marion county, Miss., and that he was indicted by the grand jury of Marion county, in June, 1926, on a charge of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor, and, being arraigned upon said charge, entered a plea of guilty, and was by the court sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and tó serve six months in the county jail, and in addition to said fine and imprisonment was required by the court to enter…