State v. Patton

Decided January 12, 1865

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1865-01-12

<p>1. Practice: modification of sentence. The Supreme Court will not modify tho sentence of a court helow, in a criminal cause, when the record does not disclose the circumstances attending the commission of the offense.</p> <p>2. Intemperance: penalty fob drunkenness. The language of the statute (Rev., 1860, §§ 1568, 1586) seems to be imperative that thirty days imprisonment shall form a part of the punishment for intoxication.</p>

Decided 1865-01-12

Wright, J.

¶11. pbacmodificasentence, 2. iotem-penalty?* aness.e Defendant was tried and convicted for being “ found in a state of intoxication,” fined ten dollars, and ordered to be imprisoned in the county jail thirty days. On this appeal, he only asks us to modify the judgment, so far as to remit the imprisonment. The record does not in any way advise as of the circumstances attending the commission of the offense, and hence we have no grounds upon which to base the proposed modification. Then again, the language of the statute seems to be imperative (Rev., §§ 1568, 1586), that thirty days imprisonment shall form a part of the punishment.

¶2We see no ground upon which we would be justified in changing the order of the court below, and it is therefore affirmed.

¶3Affirmed.