Spears v. Cty. of Modoc

The plaintiff was convicted in a justice’s court, January 27, 1890, of violating an ordinance of the county of Modoc, forbidding the keeping of a saloon where spirituous liquors were sold, and on the same day judgment was entered against him, by which he was sentenced to “pay a fine of five hundred dollars, and, in default of payment thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail of said county of Modoc for the period of one day for each dollar of said fine, or until such fine be satisfied.” From this judgment he appealed to the superior court. On the 19th of February, 1891, that court affirmed…