The circuit court may render judgments according to the principles and usages of law, in all cases cognizable before it, and award executions, directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of any county. The court, upon legal conviction of a person of a crime or misdemeanor, shall proceed to judgment and award execution thereon as the law directs.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 61, art. 1 (147); 1857, ch. 61, art. 31; 1871, § 521; 1880, § 1495; 1892, § 648; 1906, § 705; Hemingway's 1917, § 484; 1930, § 493; 1942, § 1431.
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