State v. Adams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Johanna Adams pleaded guilty to charges of having unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and of maintaining a common nuisance, and received an indeterminate sentence to the state industrial farm for women. She appeals on the ground that the statute authorizing such sentence (Laws 1917, ch. 298, § 5) is unconstitutional because it makes an unwarrantable discrimination between men and women, in that for the same offense (1) the period of commitment of the former is definite and the latter indefinite, and (2) “men are permitted to be fined…