State v. Steen
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Smith. The appellee was convicted of a crime and fined $250, and appealed to the Supreme Court, where this judgment was affirmed. Upon the mandate of this Court, the defendant duly came into custody again, till the fine and costs be paid, and the District Attorney claimed for the State interest on the judgment. The District Court discharged the defendant, upon payment of the principal of the judgment, without interest, from which order the State appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The question in this case is novel, but we do not think it difficult, or of sufficient importance to claim a very large share of the attention of the Court.
A fine, it is true, is a judgment. In Criminal Law, it is a pecuniary punishment imposed by the judgment of a Court, upon a person convicted of crime. But we do not think it such a judgment as comes within the intention of the law, allowing interest upon judgments. It is very certain, we think, from the terms in which the law is expressed, and from its whole tenor and. import, that the Legislature did not have in contemplation judgments of…
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