Ex-parte Martini

The petitioner was sentenced by the Municipal Court of the Provisional Municipality of Pensacola, in May, 1886, *344-to pay a fine of one hundred dollars or perform sixty days work on the public streets, for permitting minors to game in a house kept by him. He applied to the 3 udge of the Tfirst Circuit and obtained a writ of habeas corpus, alleging -as a ground for his discharge that the judgment or sentence was null and void for being in the alternative and for want ■of jurisdiction in the court to render such a sentence. The ■Circuit Judge, after due hearing, remanded the prisoner, who brings…