Jacobs v. State

The defendant was tried at the Spring term, 1928, of the circuit court of Coffee county on a charge of violating the prohibition law. The jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed a fine of $50. Judgment of conviction was entered forthwith, but defendant was released on bis own recognizance and permitted to go home upon his promise, to return on a certain day for sentence. Failing to return, defendant was brought into court on a capias and sentence was pronounced on September 14, 1928, being the fall term of the court. This was not a discontinuance by tbe state such as was the ease in Ex…