Gilmer v. State

According to the transcript of the record, the appellant was tried in a justice of the peace court for the fifth district of Leake county on a charge of unlawfully having in his possession intoxicating liquor. He was tried before a jury, and the verdict is recited in the judgment sent up to the circuit court, and from thence to this court. There is no judgment imposing any sentence by the court on the defendant for the crime of which he was convicted by the jury, and, although an appeal bond was filed, no judgment was ever entered by the justice of the peace on the verdict rendered finding…