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BARNES v. STATE

No. 39083.

220 Miss. 248 (1954)

70 So.2d 920

56 Adv. S. 1

BARNES v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

March 8, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R.H. Dale, Columbia, for appellant.

Joe T. Patterson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.

GILLESPIE, J.

The appellant, Stanley Barnes, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Marion County of the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor, second offense. He was fined $600 and sentenced to serve six months in jail. The fine was $100 in excess of the maximum fine and the jail sentence was the maximum. Sec. 2613 (b), Code of 1942; Jenkins v. State, 207 Miss. 281, 42 So.2d 198. The imposition of the excessive fine was not...

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