This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...tabulation extremes have admittedly been selected for presentation. This has been done deliberately in order to emphasize the confusion which exists as to what constitutes a felony and what a misdemeanor. The differences cannot be lightly explained away. The same state may have relatively light penalties for some ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...tabulation extremes have admittedly been selected for presentation. This has been done deliberately in order to emphasize the confusion which exists as to what constitutes a felony and what a misdemeanor. The differences cannot be lightly explained away. The same state may have relatively light penalties for some offenses, and yet be among those having the most severe penalties for others. Thus Alabama makes abandonment of wife, criminal libel and conspiracy misdemeanors; while arson of woods, selling drugs for miscarriage and extortion are felonies. Similar differences appear even within a single group of offenses--e.g. those pertaining to sex. Thus in the same state of Alabama, adultery, enticing a female and procuring an inmate for a house of prostitution are misdemeanors; while selling drugs for miscarriage, allowing a minor in a house of prostitution and notorious cohabitation are felonies. The race problem does not wholly explain the situation. While false swearing and resisting an officer may have been made felonies as a means of controlling the negroes; impersonating an officer and extortion, which are more apt to be offenses of white men, are also felonies. Explanation in terms of race is further clouded by the fact that riot is a felony in Alabama, but only a misdemeanor in Louisiana; conspiracy is a felony in Georgia, but only a misdemeanor in Alabama. It is interesting to note other differences of emphasis in adjoining states. Thus, resisting an officer is a misdemeanor with a maximum imprisonment of thirty days in New Mexico, but in Arizona it is a felony with a maximum of five years. Stealing a horse, cow or hog is a misdemeanor with a maximum penalty of one year in Wisconsin, but in Illinois it is a felony with a minimum of three years. In th...
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