State v. Daley
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Indictment for manslaughter. The crime was committed on the 6th day of May, 1860, and the prisoner was tried and convicted at the term of the superior court holden in Hartford county in July 1860. At the time of the commission of the crime the following statute, prescribing the punishment of manslaughter, was in force, being the 6th section of the “ act concerning crimes and punishments.”
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Indictment for manslaughter. The crime was committed on the 6th day of May, 1860, and the prisoner was tried and convicted at the term of the superior court holden in Hartford county in July 1860. At the time of the commission of the crime the following statute, prescribing the punishment of manslaughter, was in force, being the 6th section of the “ act concerning crimes and punishments.” “ Every person who shall commit manslaughter, shall forfeit and-pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and suffer imprisonment in the Connecticut state prison for a term not less than two nor more…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
Although it is to be regretted that the legis*275lature should, before the trial of the defendant, have repealed the 6th section of the act concerning crimes and punishments, (Rev. Stat., tit. 6,) prescribing the punishment for the crime of manslaughter, of "which he was convicted, which was in existence at the time of his commission of that crime, without making any provision, by way of saving or otherwise, by which the punishment therein prescribed, or any other, could be legally visited upon those who had previously been guilty of that offense, we are constrained to come to the conclusion that…
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