In Re Barnes

The petitioner was, on 27 September, 1937, tried, convicted, and sentenced to imprisonment for six months by the municipal recorder’s court of the town of Wilson, upon a warrant charging her with a violation of section 13, chapter 49, Public Laws 1937, in that she had in her possession alcoholic beverages upon which the taxes imposed by the laws of Congress of the United States and by the laws of the State had not been paid, the punishment for such offense being fixed by the statute as a fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

The municipal recorder’s court of the town of Wilson…