Joiner v. State

The plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of a second violation of the prohibition law relating to the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquors, and sentenced to pay a fine of $200.00 and one year’s imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison. To the judgment of conviction he took writ of error.

As chapter 9266 of the laws of 1923 has been recently held unconstitutional (Porter v. State, decided at the January term, 1926) this prosecution will be deemed to have been conducted under section 5486 of the Revised General Statutes, 1920, which the void act sought to amend.

The…