Case Name: Walter Goodlow v. State of Indiana
Court: Court of Appeals of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1974-12-19
Citations: 162 Ind. App. 510
Docket Number: No. 2-873A186
Parties: Walter Goodlow v. State of Indiana.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 162
Pages: 510–511

Head Matter:
Walter Goodlow v. State of Indiana.
[No. 2-873A186.
Filed December 19, 1974.]
Harriette Bailey Conn, (Mrs.), Public Defender of Indiana, Carr L. Darden, Sr., Deputy Public Defender, for appellant.
Theodore L. Sendalc, Attorney General, Robert F. Collcer, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
White, J.
Appellant 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.
The judgment is affirmed.
Sullivan, P.J., and Buchanan, J., concur.
Note. — Reported at 319 N.E.2d 866.