Gillett ex rel. Smith v. Sweat

How courts have described this case

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• reciting the principle that a “court cannot create a penalty by construction, but must avoid it by construction, unless it is brought within the letter and the necessary meaning of the act creating it”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).