Rogers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to bomb or to plant or place any bomb or other explosive matter or thing in, upon or near any building, ship, vessel, boat, railroad station, railroad car or coach, bus station or depot, bus, truck, or other vehicle, gas and oil stations and pipe lines, radio station or radio equipment or other means of communication, warehouse or any electric plant or water plant, telephone exchange or any of the lines belonging thereto, wherein a person or persons are located, or being transported, or where there is being manufactured, stored, assembled or shipped or in the preparation of shipment any goods, wares, merchandise or anything of value, with the felonious intent to hurt or harm any person or property, and upon the conviction thereof shall be punished by death if the penalty is so fixed by the jury; and in cases where the jury fails to fix the penalty at death, the court shall fix the penalty at imprisonment in the penitentiary for any term as the court, in its discretion, may determine.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 2d 360 - Tarrants v. State

2. “In the light of the rules just stated, and the words of the statute itself, it is clear to us that the particular evil sought to be curbed by the enactment of Section 2143, as amended, was violence to persons or property, and the classifying characteristics of that particular evil is the employment or use of bombs or other explosives in, upon or near any bus (or other objects and places designated in the statute) as the means and place to accomplish the evil. ( 228 Miss. at 880 , 89 So.2d at 863 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 2d 360 - Tarrants v. State

3. “, as used in the statute, was intended to designate an infernal machine employing explosives contrived by criminals to accomplish bodily injury or destruction of property. The Encyclopedia Americana, Vol. 4; State v. Londe, 345 Mo. 185 , 132 S.W.2d 501 . The first time the word”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 So. 2d 360 - Tarrants v. State