Gabriel v. Brame, Sheriff

At the August 1945 Term of the circuit court of Lauder-dale County appellant pleaded guilty , to a charge of willful trespass. The penalty for this offense as fixed by Section 2406, Code 1942, is a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment not longer than six months in the county jail or both — there being no prescription of a minimum sentence. Acting under the provisions of Section 2541, Code 1942, the court imposed the maximum penalty, but suspended all of it except ninety days in jail, conditioned that the convict would not violate the law in the future. After serving his…