Whittington v. STEVENS, SHERIFF

It seems to me that in striking down the second sentence of Code of 1942, Section 7907, the Court is placing an unwarranted restriction upon the power of the Legislature to control the management, supervision and discharge of prisoners. This statute simply provides that the board of supervisors may deduct one-half of the sentence of a prisoner in the county jail, if he is “so crippled or incapacitated because of illness that he cannot perform manual labor. . . The board cannot do this until it has the certificate of the jail physician, which must be placed upon the minutes along with the…