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Show LAW VIOLATOR GETS HEAVY JOLT Edward A. Vincent Given Sentence Sen-tence of Six Months in County Coun-ty Jail on Liquor Possession Edward A. Vincent and his wife Emma Vincent were convicted by a jury in the District Court at St. George on Friday for unlawfuly and knowingly having in their possession intoxicating liquors. These defendants defend-ants had previously been convicted in the Justice court for the same offense. In the Justice court Edward Vincent was sentenced to pay a fine of $250.00 and given 30 days imprisonment. Mrs. Emma Vincent was adjudged to pay a fine of $50.00 and the judgment of the court was suspended during good behavior. be-havior. The defendants not being satisified with the . judgment of the Justice court ' appealed their case tc the District court. As soon as the verdict of the jury was returned in the District Court, the attorney for the defendants made a motion for a new trial which was promptly denied by Judge Thos. H. Burton, who thereupon immediately sentenced Edward A. Vincent to serve a term of six months in the county jail at hard labor. Mrs. Vincent was sentenced to serve a term in the county coun-ty jail of 90 days. Purely out of consideration con-sideration for the family of the de fendants which consisted of five children chil-dren ranging in age from 7 to 17 years Judge Burton suspended the execution of the sentence of Mrs. Vincent until Dec. 31, 1928, thereby permitting her to return to her home to take care of the family. The terms of the suspension suspen-sion are that she is to desist from trafficing in intoxicating liquors, and refrain from violating any city or town ordinance or state law during the term of the suspension, and properly take care of her family and report to the sheriff at the first of each month until ifle further order of the court. The experience of this case ought to be a lesson to bootleggers not to appeal their cases to the District court expecting ex-pecting any leniency whatsoever. Judge Burton has sentenced a great many bootleggers during his term, in office and with possibly one exception they have all received a sentence of six months in the county jail. In passing sentence of the Vincents Judge Burton emphatically announced that he was not in favor of fines in bootlegging cases. That a fine was no more or less that a license and that he was firmly of the opinion that the only way to put an end to the damnable practice was to resort to heavy jail sentences thereby protecting protect-ing society from the evil practices of the bootlegger at least during the term of the sentence. By law Vincent is given 30 dyas to perfect an appeal and is now out on $500 bonds. |