State v. Hebert

The defendant is charged with unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to imprisonment in jail for 60 days, and, in default of the payment of fine, it was ordered that defendant be imprisoned for an additional period of 6 months.

That part of the sentence of the lower court inflicting the additional imprisonment was set aside in this case, upon the ground that it exceeded the maximum punishment of 60 days fixed by section 3 of the Hood Act, Act 39 of 1921, Extra Session.

In my opinion, this ruling is clearly…