Derry v. State

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to find an ambiguity in a statute, even where there existed a “theoretically arguable ambiguity,” due to belief that the plain language manifested legislative intent
• As a rule, the Court of Appeals views the words of a statute in ordinary terms, in their natural meaning, in the manner in which they are most commonly understood
• “If the words of a statute clearly and unambiguously delineate the legislative intent, ours is an ephemeral enterprise: we need investigate no further but simply apply the statute as it reads”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).