Ex parte Pells

Raney, C. J.:

Pells was convicted on the 27th day of April of the present year, in the Circuit Court of Leon county, of an aggravated assault, and sentenced to pay a fine of $250 and costs, and has been held by the sheriff in the county jail since that time, in default of payment of such fine and costs. On the 29th day of July he presented a petition to the Justice writing this oxfinion praying, in effect, to be discharged under the provisions of ‘ ‘ An act for the relief of persons imprisoned for the non-payment of fines and costs of courts, imposed by sentence of any of the courts of this…