Opinion

Green v. State

  • 222 Ala. 556
  • 133 So. 740
  • 1931 Ala. LEXIS 327
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Apr 2, 1931
Status
Published
Author
Thomas
On the bench
Anderson, Brown, Saxre, Thomas
Cited by
2 cases
Authority
More cited than 66.3%

The opinion

THOMAS, J.

The question propounded for decision is as follows: “When a defendant has been convicted of grand larceny should he be sentenced under section 5267 et seq., or section 5265 of Code 1923?”

The two statutes, section 5267. et seq., and section 5265, Code of 1923, present a conflict as to the place (whether by imprisonment ’or hard labor, in eases indicated in the decisions by the Court of Appeals) of punishment for the time indicated. The Act of 1919, p. 148, as codified, section 5267,' Code, et seq., providing for the indeterminate sentence, is the last specific expression of the legislative will in respects indicated on the point at issue, and should be followed by the trial courts in the imposition of 'sentehees in designation of the place of their service. Bibb v. State, 83 Ala. 84, 92 , 3 So. 711 . See, also, Ex parte Thomas, 113 Ala. 1 , 21 So. 369 ; Robinson v. State, 6 Ala. App. 13, 14 , 60 So. 558 ; Ex parte Robinson, 183 Ala. 30 , 63 So. 177 ; Simmons v. State, 22 Ala. App. 126 , 113 So. 466 .

The Court of Appeals has properly applied the statute in the eases cited in the foregoing interrogatory.

ANDERSON, C. J., and SAXRE and BROWN, JJ., concur.

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