Reed v. Lincoln Joint Stock Land Bank

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• proportionate penalties clause in the 1870 Illinois Constitution also applied to legislature
• proportionate penalties clause in the 1870 Illinois Constitution also applied to legislature
• proportionate penalties clause in the 1870 Illinois Constitution also applied to legislature
• “The only reason that the fines aggregate a large sum and the imprisonment is for a long period is because there were so many violations of the law prosecuted under one indictment, but the punishment under each count must be considered by itself.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).