Hall v. State

In the last two or three years, the crime of robbery or attempts at robbery by the use and exhibition of deadly weapons in the hands of the offender had become so frequent and had so often been attended by homicide or serious injuries that the Legislature determined at its 1932 session to deal with this problem by a new statute making such an offense capital in the discretion of the jury, and hence there was enacted at said session chapter 328, Laws 1932, approved May 5, 1932, which, with its caption, reads as follows:

“An act to make robbery a capital offense under certain conditions and to…