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Show C5ty Judge Barker Modifies City Court Sentence on Liquor Charge An appeal from a sentence imposed in the city tourt resulted in the mollification moll-ification of punishment from a six monthn straight jail sentence to $H0 fine for Prank Cowan. Slatervlllo youth, after the appeal was heard by Judge George S. Barker, In the dls- trlct court yesterday. Cowan was sentenced by Judge D R. Roberts of the city court, near-ly near-ly a month ago, to serve six months In the county jail, after conviction , of having liquor In his possession. Qeorge Haivcrson, attorney for Cowan, Cow-an, appealed the case to the district court and artrr Hearing je.storday, tho punishment was leduced tu $100 fine., attorney Haivorson explained to ttje ; court that his client had already serv-ed serv-ed nearly one month in Jail. It wa said that it v,ns Cowan's first offense and thai tno straight Jail sentence sen-tence of six months woa too sovert j |