Warwick v. State
Warwick v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
At the November term, 1910, of the circuit' court of Forrest county, appellant entered a plea of guilty to an indictment charging her with vagrancy. The court entered an order suspending sentence during the good behavior of defendant, upon the payment of all costs. At the April term, 1911, the court entered the following judgment: “Comes the district attorney, who prosecutes for the state, and it appearing to the court that the defendant entered a plea of guilty to said charge at the November term, 1910, and the sentence was suspended during good behavior upon the payment of costs, and it
The court had no power to enter this judgment. The first clause of section 5058 of the Code of 1906 prescribes the only judgment within the power of the court to render. There was no conviction for a second offense, and therefore sections 5059 and 5061 do not apply.
Reversed and remanded.
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- 1. Vagrancy. Judgment. Validity. Code 1906, sections 5058, 5059-5061. Where a defendant indicted for vagrancy under section 5058, Code 1906, pleads guilty and the court without taking bond for good behavior suspends sentence on the payment of costs, the court cannot afterwards sentence defendant under this plea as for a second offense, section 5059 and section 5061, having no application in such case. 2. Same. In such case defendant must be sentenced under Code 1906, section 5058, and this is true although defendant after such suspension of sentence was again guilty of a similar offense.