Williams v. State

VEASEY, Chief Justice:

In this appeal we find an implied savings provision in legislation that amended the criminal stalking statute. The result is that a defendant who is charged with committing the crime of stalking under the old statute in effect at the time of the alleged crime may be convicted under the old statute even though the amending legislation that created the new statute did not include an express savings clause. The rationale for this holding is that the new legislation is not a repealer, and it would be an absurd result, clearly not intended by the General Assembly, to hold…