State v. Sharp

Defendant was indicted for’ unlawfully transporting intoxicating liq*360uors for beverage purposes, was tried, found guilty, and sentenced to 60 days in jail; to pay a fine of $500, and, in default of paying the fine, to one year additional in tbe parish jail.

Defendant complains in this court that Act '39, Extra Session of 1921 — the act under which he was convicted — ’does not authorize the sentence imposed. His position is that the act does not sanction the imposition of a jail sentence exceeding 60 days for the offense for which he has been convicted, when the conviction is, as is the ease…