Opinion

DuBose v. State

  • 15 Ala. App. 233
  • 73 So. 121
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Nov 28, 1916
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown
Cited by
0 cases
Authority
More cited than 11.8%

The opinion

BROWN, J.

(1) The appellant seeks to show by ex parte affidavits that he was not in court when the sentence of the court *234 was pronounced against him. The judgment entry in the record recites: “The defendant, being in open court, is sentenced to four months’ hard labor for the county of Chilton, imposed by the court.”

There is no contention that the judgment of the court as it appears on the record in the court below is not correctly transcribed. It is well settled that such.records cannot be varied or impeached by evidence aliunde. — Edinburgh L. & M. Co. v. Canterbury, 169 Ala. 444 , 53 South. 823 .

(2) . The sentence, however, is not regular, as it does not appear whether the sentence to four months’ hard labor wás for the payment of the fine and costs, or was additional punishment for the offense. Whether the one or the other, of necessity, it was “imposed by the court.”

(3) The judgment of conviction is affirmed, but the sentence is vacated, and the cause remanded, that the defendant may be sentenced. — Bryant v. State, 13 Ala. App. 206 , 68 South. 704 .

Affirmed in part, and in part reversed and remanded.

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