Griffith v. State

PRICE, Presiding Judge.

The indictment in this case reads :

“The grand jury of said county charge that, before the finding of this indictment, John Ike Griffith unlawfully did assume to act or hold himself out to the public as a person qualified to practice or carry on the calling of a lawyer subsequent to his disbarment, against the *380peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.”

Upon conviction the jury assessed a fine of five hundred dollars and the court imposed a sentence at hard labor for Jefferson Count}; as additional punishment.

For present failure to pay the fine and costs or to confess…