Granger v. State
Decision Date | 06 October 1897 |
Docket Number | 9364 |
Citation | 72 N.W. 474,52 Neb. 352 |
Parties | HERMAN F. GRANGER v. STATE OF NEBRASKA |
Court | Nebraska Supreme Court |
ERROR to the district court for Sheridan county. Tried below before KINKAID, J. Affirmed.
AFFIRMED.
R. C Noleman, for plaintiff in error.
C. J Smyth, Attorney General, and Ed P. Smith, Deputy Attorney General, for the state.
This was a prosecution for stealing a cow. The principal ground urged for a reversal is that the act of the legislature of 1895, under which the defendant was convicted, is unconstitutional and void. The act in question is chapter 77, Laws, 1895 (Criminal Code, sec. 117a), and reads as follows:
It is suggested in the brief that this We cannot yield assent to the proposition; nevertheless, if it be true that the law is not a wise one, it is no reason why the courts should declare it invalid. The argument made by counsel against the statute under consideration would have been more appropriate were it addressed to the lawmaking body, as the constitution has not conferred upon this court the power to repeal laws, but the authority to interpret and enforce them in proper cases.
It is insisted that the act referred to is repugnant to section 11 article 3, of the constitution, which declares that "no bill shall contain more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in its title." The object of the law is single. The act makes the stealing of cattle a crime and provides a penalty for the same. All the provisions of the law are germane to the subject of legislation,--cattle stealing. Whether there is any merit in the...
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