State ex rel. Esgar v. District Court

Richmond Gex was charged before a. justice of the peace of township No. 1 of Gallatin county, on the eighth day of August, 1919, with a violation of section 8576 of the Revised Codes, in having promoted a boxing match in defiance of its provisions. A trial was had upon that date in the justice’s court, judgment of conviction rendered and entered, and a fine imposed upon the defendant therein in the sum of $50. Upon his refusal to pay the fine, he was committed by said justice to the county jail for the period of twenty-five days, or until the payment of such fine. In - obedience to the…