State v. Chapman

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The defendant was prosecuted for retailing spirituous liquors without a license, and on conviction was sentenced to pay a fine of three hundred dollars and the costs, and in default of payment to be imprisoned in the parish jail for sixty days.

Our jurisdiction in criminal cases is restricted to those wherein the punishment of death or imprisonment at hard labour may be inflicted or a fine exceeding three hundred dollars is actually imposed. Const. Art. 81.

The fine imposed on the defendant does not exceed three hundred dollars. It is exactly…