State v. Mulcare

The appellants herein were charged, as defendants, by information, with the crime of attempted robbery committed on April 13, 1936, and, upon a trial by jury, were found guilty. A motion in arrest of judgment having been denied, judgment was entered sentencing each of the defendants to the penitentiary for a term of not more than twenty years.

Upon this appeal, there are two assignments of error. The first assignment challenges the constitutionality of chapter 114, Laws of 1935, p. 308, Eem. Eev. Stat. (Sup.), §10249-1 [P. C. §4503-31] et seq., which became effective prior to the commission of…