Brewer v. State
Brewer v. State
Opinion of the Court
It is contended that this record should not have been admitted for the reason that no testimony followed its admission that the plaintiff in error is and was the same person charged and found guilty in the case aforesaid. The only evidence connecting plaintiff in error with the case before the justice is his answer to the following question submitted to him on his direct examination:
“Q Will you please state whether or not you ever plead guilty before justice of the peace Allshouse in Gallipolis Township, Gallia County, Ohio, April 1,1925, to receiving intoxicating liquors or any other charge?
A I did not.”
So much of the judgment as recites that the accused was guilty as charged in the affidavit of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor is affirmed, but so much of the judgment as recites that the accused was guilty of a second offense is vacated. And as the accused was entitled to be sentenced as tho for a first offense and as it appears that he was sentenced as for a second offense the case is remanded to the trial court for resentence. In so doing this court does not mean that' it be implied that the new sentence be more or less severe than the original sentence. The only purpose of this is to give the accused the record to which he is entitled.
Judgment modified and case remanded for resentence only.
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