State v. Eubanks

Citations

• 114 La. 428
• 38 So. 407
• 1905 La. LEXIS 483

Syllabus

<p>CRIMINAL LAW — GRADING MISDEMEANORS— CONSTITUTIONAL LAW — LARCENY</p> <p>—PUNISHMENT.</p> <p>1. Section 5 of Act 'No. 107, p. 162, of 1902 (“To grade misdemeanors and minor offenses,-’ etc.), is constitutional in so far as it grades the offense of petty larceny and makes the same punishable by imprisonment in the parish jail.</p> <p>2. In State v. Dalcourt, 36 South. 479, 112 La. 420, it was held that the same section was unconstitutional only in so far as it made the larceny of objects of the value of $20 and over punishable by imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>