No. 45190 | La. | Nov 7, 1960
The defendant, Charleston White, having been sentenced “to serve fifteen days in the parish jail and to pay a fine of three hundred ($300.00) dollars and, in default of payment of the fine, to serve an additional six months in the parish jail” on his conviction for violation of the State Gambling Statute, R.S. 14:90, this court is without appellate jurisdiction since the imprisonment actually imposed
The appeal is dismissed.
. The question of whether the imposition of a fine, with the condition that default in the payment thereof will result in additional time in prison, constitutes actual imposition of the sentence was resolved in the negative in the leading case of State v. Roy, 152 La. 933" court="La." date_filed="1922-11-27" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-roy-7172867?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7172867">152 La. 933, 94 So. 703, citing State v. Hamilton, 128 La. 91" court="La." date_filed="1911-02-27" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-hamilton-7167583?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7167583">128 La. 91, 54 So. 482" court="La." date_filed="1911-02-27" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/lewis-v-baker-7167584?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7167584">54 So. 482 and State v. Mitchell, 137 La. 1098" court="La." date_filed="1915-10-18" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-mitchell-7169710?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="7169710">137 La. 1098, 69 So. 851. See also State v. Parker,
. Louisiana Constitution, Art. 7, Sec. 10.
. Authority of this court to transfer cases erroneously appealed is found in R.S. 13:4441, which was held not applicable to appeals from Oity Court to District Court in City of New Orleans v. Brady, 236 La. 789" court="La." date_filed="1959-02-16" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/city-of-new-orleans-v-brady-4769312?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="4769312">236 La. 789, 109 So.2d 95. See also, State v. Ginalva, 165 La. 304, 115 So. 571.
.R.S. 13:1870, Section O, as amended by act No. 326 of 1956.