Ward v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently February 2016
3 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · Affronti v. United States · Federal Trade Commission v. Crafts · Scadden v. State · Sorenson v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“'The power to determine what acts shall constitute crimes, and what acts shall not, and to prescribe punishment for acts prohibited belongs to the legislative branch of government. This power is said to be inherent in the state legislature and it is also comprehended in the general grant of legislative power contained in the state constitution. The power is exclusive and is not shared by the courts. So'long as constitutional prohibitions are not infringed, the will of the legislature in this respect is absolute. But the power to define crimes is of course subject to the limitations contained in state and federal constitutions.' 21 Am. Jur. 2d Criminal Law § 14 (1965). * seo ®, Furthermore, the inherent right. of the legislature to prescribe sentence includes the, right to specify the bounds in which probation, parole or sentence annulment may be granted. See, King v. State, Wyo., 720 P.2d 465 (1986), Peterson v. State, Wyo., 586 P.2d 144 (1978); Sorenson v. State, supra [Wyo., 604 P.2d 1031 (1979)]; Hicklin v. State, supra. Therefore, in this instance, we must inquire into the intent of . the legislature and defer to their statutory enactments. Ward v. State, 735 P.2d 707, 708 (Wy.1987). [T17]} By statute, probation is defined as "a sentence not involving confinement which imposes conditions and retains authority in the sentencing court to modify the conditions of the sentence or to resentence the offender . if he violates the conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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