GILLESPIE, Presiding Justice:
The principal question involved in this appeal is whether imprisonment of an indigent defendant for failure to pay a fine constitutes a deprivation of due process and equal protection of the law. We hold that it does not.
On a plea of guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbance in a public place in violation of Mississippi Code 1942 Annotated, Section 2090.5 (1956), appellant was sentenced to serve six months in jail and to...
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