Hicks v. Brown Shoe Co.

How courts have described this case

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• describing the legislative task of adopting \[p]enal laws\ and the limited \judicial function\ of \fix[ing] the amount of punishment within the limits prescribed by the legislature\
• describing the legislative task of adopting “[p]enal laws” and the limited “judicial function” of “fix[ing] the amount of punishment within the limits prescribed by the legislature”
• finding governor may revoke conditional pardon after expiration of original sentence’s term
• “The Commonwealth is interested not only in the preservation of peace and good order, but in reformation of the criminal, so that he may be restored to a useful place in society and be self-sustaining thereafter.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).