Foote v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal, as up on Writ of Error, from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
This case comes before us upon a writ of error from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City.
The plaintiff in error, Foote, was indicted in that Court under the Act of 1882, ch. 120, for brutally assaulting and heating his. wife, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in jail, for sixty days, and to he whipped seven lashes by the sheriff. He assigns for causes of error that the Act of 1882, chap. 120, is unconstitutional (in so far as it imposes the penalty of whipping) for the following reasons:
1st. That it is in contravention of the 16th and 25th Articles of the Bill of Rights of Maryland,…
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