Lessee of Armstrong v. Morgan

How courts have described this case

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

• “existing pertinent statutes are read into and made a part of the sentence imposed by the court”
• definition of crimes \so far as not left to the common law\ is province of Legislature
• “The definition of crimes ... so far as not left to the common law, belong[s] to the Legislature”
• “The execution of sentences according to standing laws is an attribute of the executive department of government”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).