Legal Opinion
Lindsey v. Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 17, 1937No. 660PublishedCited by 519 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
In this case certiorari was granted to review a decision of the Supreme Court of Washington, 187 Wash. 346; 61 P. (2d) 293, that Chapter 114 of the Laws of Washington, 1935, under which petitioners were sentenced to terms of imprisonment, is not an ex post facto law prohibited by Article I, § 10, of the Federal Constitution.
Petitioners were convicted in the state court of the crime of grand larceny, made a felony by state law, § 2601 (2), Remington Rev. Stat., and sentenced to be punished by confinement in the state penitentiary and reformatory respectively for terms of not more than fifteen…
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