Ellis v. State

The petitioner was convicted in the County Court of Pinellas County upon the charge of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor. He was sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars and'serve four months in the county jail. An additional sentence of imprisonment in the county jail for a period of six months was imposed in the event of default in the payment of the fine. A new trial was denied and the defendant took a writ of error from the Circuit Court which affirmed the judgment.

The case comes here on certiorari.

The facts in the case, as the evidence tended to establish, were that E.…