Ex-parte Bryant

Citations

• 24 Fla. 278

Syllabus

<p>1. In a case of larceny where the convict is sentenced to pay a fine, with directions for commitment to custody until it is paid, the fine is the penalty, and the commitment only a process for enforcing the payment thereof.</p> <p>2. A sentence to pay a fine, and that the “ sheriff do keep you in cus tody until the judgment of the court is complied with,” is not itself a. violation of section 8 of the Bill of Rights of this State in regard to “indefinite imprisonment.” The sentence with award of process does not necessarily create any imprisonment; and neither the award nor a holding under it can he said to create indefinite imprisonment in the absence of circumstances shown making it so.</p>