State v. Gibson County’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
September 1984
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
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“The object of the statute in authorizing a workhouse sentence in felony cases is to give the State the benefit of the county prisons for the confinement of a large class of its felony convicts, and the operation of the statute is highly beneficial to the State in relieving its main prison and in saving the cost of transportation of prisoners.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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