State v. Heitman

Citations

• 105 Kan. 139
• 181 P. 630
• 8 A.L.R. 848
• 1919 Kan. LEXIS 37

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Statute — Establishing Industrial Farm for Women — Constitutional and Valid. Chapter 298 of the Laws of 1917, establishing an institution known as the state industrial farm for ■ women, for the detention and care of women convicted of criminal offenses, does not violate any of the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, because a woman convicted of misdemeanor is sentenced to the farm for an undetermined period, with a maximum limit, while a man convicted of the same misdemeanor is sentenced, under the general law, to the county jail for a definite period, within the same maximum limit.</p>