State v. Thomas

HAMITER, Justice.

The defendant herein, Newt Thomas, was charged as a second offender with the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcoholic beverages and also with criminally reckess driving. On arraignment he pleaded not guilty to both offenses.

After a trial the defendant was found guilty of drunken driving as a second offender. Later, the court sentenced him to serve seven months in jail, to pay a fine of $350 (and costs), and to- spend an additional six months in jail in default of payment of the fine. From the conviction and sentence he appealed.

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