Chowder v. Searcy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “It is the province of the legislature to enact laws defining crimes and to fix the degree, extent and method for punishment.” (quotation omitted)
• “Courts can neither ignore the plain language of the legislation nor add words which the lawmakers did not see fit to include.”
• “A specific law is deemed to control a specific case over a general law.”
• a specific law is deemed to control a specific case over a general law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).