Roberts v. Weeks

Atkinson, Justice.

A defendant, upon conviction of an offense in the Fed- . eral Court, was sentenced to serve a year and a day in the Federal penitentiary. After sentence, and while confined in the jail of Fulton County awaiting removal to the Federal penitentiary, the defendant was tried in the State court for felony, and a jury convicting him recommended that he be punished as for a misdemeanor. The judge imposed the following sentence: “Whereupon it is considered by the court that the defendant, Carl Weeks, be put to work and labor on the public works of the County of Fulton, or otherwise,…