252.130. Failure to pay fine and costs--procedure. - Missouri Statutes

Failure to pay fine and costs--procedure.

252.130. Whenever upon conviction the person convicted failsto pay the fine and costs imposed upon him, he shall be committedto the jail of the county or of the city of St. Louis or to someworkhouse and shall there be kept confined one day for each twodollars of the fine, and not more than twenty days for costsadjudged against him, unless otherwise paroled by the judge ofthe circuit or criminal courts of the state as otherwise providedby law in criminal cases.

(RSMo 1939 § 8947, A.L. 1945 p. 664 § 9)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 8291; 1919 § 5641; 1909 § 6530