Jackson v. Waller

This action was brought in the Circuit Court of Forrest County, Mississippi, against the sheriff to obtain *168the release of petitioner, prisoner, by habeas corpus proceeding’s.

The petitioner alleges that he pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors on June 26, 1957, in the county court, and that he was fined and sentenced to serve ninety days at labor on the county road; that upon payment of the fine, the ninety-day sentence was suspended by the county judge, pending the good behaviour of defendant, petitioner.

At the August 1962 term of the Forrest County Court,…