State Ex Rel. Ringer v. Boles

How courts have described this case

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• “This Court has consistently held that the habitual criminal statutes of this state are mandatory and jurisdictional.”
• “Habitual criminal proceedings providing for enhanced or additional punishment on proof of one or more prior convictions are wholly statutory____ Being in derogation of the common law, such statutes are generally held to require a strict construction in favor of the prisoner.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).