McConnell v. State

George Rose Smith, Associate Justice.

This purports to be an appeal from a judgment imposing a fine and suspended jail sentence for the possession of untaxed liquor. Ark. Stats. 1947, § 48-934. Whether an appeal was perfected is open to question, for the record does not clearly show that the circuit court granted an appeal, as the law requires. Ark. Stats., § 43-2708. Instead, counsel filed a notice of appeal and designation of the record, apparently in the belief that the procedure is governed by Act 555 of 1953. That statute, as its title indicates, applies only to civil cases. Nevertheless,…