Commonwealth v. Colonial Stores, Incorporated

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• “Doubts in the construction -24- of a penal statute will be resolved in favor of lenity and against a construction that would produce extremely harsh or incongruous results or impose punishments totally disproportionate to the gravity of the offense . . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).