State v. Truax

Citations

• 130 Wash. 69
• 226 P. 259
• 33 A.L.R. 1206
• 1924 Wash. LEXIS 820

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Criminal Offenses — Grand Larceny — Punishment — Statutes. A banking corporation cannot be indicted for grand larceny tbe punishment for which is expressly fixed at imprisonment in the penitentiary by Rem. Comp. Stat., § 2605, because of impossibility of inflicting the punishment; and there can be no application of Id., § 2265, providing for both fine and imprisonment in the case of felonies for which no punishment is “prescribed,” which means to lay down authoritatively, impose or direct, as is done hy Id., § 2605.</p>