Slaton v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of the sale of intoxicating liquor, and was fined five hundred dollars and three months imprisonment in the county jail, from which judgment he appeals.

The case originated in the justice of the peace court of justice of the peace district No. 1, Hinds county, and the evidence charges the selling of whisky in the said district, county, and state. There was a conviction in the justice of the peace court and a fine of three hundred dollars and ninety days’ imprisonment in the county jail, from which the appeal was prosecuted to the circuit court.

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