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162 Ind. App. 510

Goodlow v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided December 19, 1974

Indiana Court of Appeals · decided 1974-12-19

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1982

4 state decisions

Relies on Landaw v. State · 153 Ind. App. 102 - Jacobs v. State · 156 Ind. App. 509 - Davis v. State

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Decided 1974-12-19

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White, J.

¶1Appellant appeals from a post-conviction relief judgment (PC. 1) which reduced his ten to twenty-five year robbery sentence to five to twenty-five years, contending that judicial modification of an unconstitutional statutory penalty to render the statute constitutional is judicial legislation prohibited by Article III, section 1, Constitution of Indiana (separation of powers), and ultimately contending that the imposition of any sentence under the unconstitutional statute is error. Exactly the same argument was rejected in Landaw v. State (1972), 258 Ind. 67, 279 N.E.2d 230; Jacobs v. State (1972), 153 Ind. App. 102, 286 N.E.2d 224; and Davis v. State (1973), 156 Ind. App. 534, 297 N.E. 2d 450.

¶2The judgment is affirmed.

¶3Sullivan, P.J., and Buchanan, J., concur.

¶4Note. — Reported at 319 N.E.2d 866.

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