Allen v. Kramer

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• providing that the Legislature “deleted the crime of rape . . . and substituted a crime known as unlawful sexual intercourse . . . , which . . . . [includes] all the elements previously required to establish the commission of rape”
• In the face of silence on the issue, there is no reason to believe the General Assembly would intend punishment to depend upon fortuitous circumstance of when a defendant was convicted and sentenced.
• In the face of silence on the issue, there is no reason to believe the General Assembly would intend punishment to depend upon fortuitous circumstance of when a defendant was convicted and sentenced rather than when his crime was committed.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).