Shewmaker v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• “It is presumed that the Legislature was cognizant of preexisting statutes at the time it enacted a later statute on the same matter.”
• \It is presumed that the Legislature was cognizant of preexisting statutes at the time it enacted a later statute on the same matter.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).