Hall v. City of Birmingham

The defendant was convicted in the' recorder’s court of the city of Birmingham on a charge of disorderly conduct, was fined $100, and an additional term of 180 days at hard labor was fixed by the court.’ From this judgment an appeal was taken to the circuit court, where the question of guilt was submitted to a jury under instructions from the court, who also submitted to the jury the punishment to be imposed whether fine and hard labor, one or both. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and fixing a fine only. Whereupon the court fixed an additional'punishment of 180 days at bard labor. This…