Slaven v. State

MR- Justice McKinney

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The plaintiff in error has appealed from a judgment convicting him of transporting more than one gallon of liquor.

The jury fixed his punishment at confinement in the penitentiary for one year and one day. '

The amendment to the Indeterminate Sentence Law, requiring juries to fix the maximum term of imprisonment in felony cases, was effective on April 15, 1923. By its terms, this amendment applies only to offenses committed after the passage of the act.

The indictment in this case charges that the offense was committed on April 7, 1923, and…