A French court on Wednesday handed a French bartender a four-month suspended jail sentence and a yearlong suspension for serving a customer 56 shots, an amount of alcohol that led to the man's death last October, Le Point reported.

Gilles Crepin, 47, admitted that he had made a mistake by displaying the in-house shots record of "Le Starter," his bar in the central French town of Clermont-Ferrand. His patron, 56-year-old Renaud Prudhomme, died a day after breaking the record during an evening spent with his daughter and some friends, according to AFP.

The customer downed 30 glasses in a minute -- either straight shots or a blend of various spirits with mixers, the Telegraph recalled. In all, he consumed more than 30 fluid ounces of liquor.

According to his daughter, Crepin whispered "only 12 to go" at one point, apparently encouraging Prudhomme to keep drinking, the newspaper added.

"The owner served the father of my client when he was not in a fit state to understand what he was doing," the daughter's lawyer, Antoine Portal, told BFM TV. "It is not known whether he would still be alive if he had not drunk the last 12 shots, but by downing those last shots, he was left with no chance."

Crepin's lawyer, Renaud Portejoie, meanwhile, said on Wednesday that he would appeal against the ruling, even though the prosecutor had asked for an even stiffer sentence -- a suspended jail term of six months; a five-year ban from working at this bar; and a $1,650 fine, according to Le Point.

"I have the impression that it was emotion that guided the judge, when it should have been the law that should have prevailed," Portejoie said. "I continue to believe that my client has no responsibility, either criminal or civil," the attorney added.

Portal, for his part, noted that Prudhomme's daughter was "relieved" by the court's ruling, according to the Guardian.

"We want to remind some professionals that it is illegal to serve alcohol to clients who are in an advanced state of inebriation," the attorney said.