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- Title
CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES.
- Abstract
The article presents information about construction of statutes. The article refers to the Johnson versus State of Alabama case. The convict is sentenced to imprisonment for life. The Alabama statute says that any convict sentenced to imprisonment for life, who commits murder in the first degree while such conviction remains in force against him must, on conviction, suffer death. The defendant had been convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be hanged. The governor commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. While the defendant was serving, this commuted sentence he killed a fellow convict. It was objected that the case did not fall under the above statute, as he had not been sentenced to imprisonment for life, but had been sentenced to be hanged. The court held that the effect of the commutation was to make him a life convict under judgment of conviction for murder in the first degree and that he was properly convicted under the statute.
- Subjects
STATUTES; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); CRIMINAL sentencing; LIFE sentences; MURDER; IMPRISONMENT; LAW
- Publication
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law & Criminology, 1914, Vol 4, Issue 5, p740
- ISSN
0885-4173
- Publication type
Article