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Reabold v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1895PublishedCited by 1 opinion

From the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, Judge. In this case the appellant was convicted of unlawfully selling- and retailing vinous and spirituous liquors, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for ninety days and to the payment of a fine of $500 and the costs of prosecution, and to stand committed until the fine and costs were paid.

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From the circuit court of Pike county. Hon. W. P. Cassedy, Judge. In this case the appellant was convicted of unlawfully selling- and retailing vinous and spirituous liquors, and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for ninety days and to the payment of a fine of $500 and the costs of prosecution, and to stand committed until the fine and costs were paid. The sentence and judgment then concludes as follows: “It is further-considered by the court that the said defendant, Robert Reabold, shall not be delivered to the county contractor during said term of imprisonment.” The statute…

1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.

The second section of chapter 76, acts of 1894, is part of a new scheme for dealing with county convicts, and the chapter is a repeal of, and a substitute for, chapter 23, code 1892. This second section of chapter 76 of the acts of 1894 first provides generally for the commitment of convicts sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail, or to such imprisonment and the payment of a fine, and their close confinement for the full time specified for imprisonment in the sentence of the court, unless discharged by due course of law. This is the general provision of the statute; but, by the first…

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