Case Name: Morris F. Luff v. State of Ohio
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 660
Docket Number: No. 18700
Parties: Morris F. Luff v. State of Ohio.
Judges: Jones, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur. Marshall, CJ., and Matthias, J., dissent.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 660–660

Head Matter:
No. 890
No. 18700
Morris F. Luff v. State of Ohio.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
333. CRIMINAL LAW—Person convicted of offense has right to be sentenced .under law as it existed at commission and not as subsequently amended.

Opinion:
DAY J.
1. A person convicted of a criminal offense has a right to be sentenced under the law as it existed at the time of the commission of the alleged offense and is not required to submit to a sentence under the law as subsequently amended.
2. A sentence under an indeterminate sen-tenee_ law which may have the effect of increasing the minimum .punishment beyond what might have been inflicted under the original statute which the amended statute supersedes, should be set aside and the accused resentenced under the statute as it existed at the time of the commission of the offense.
Judgment modified.
Jones, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur. Marshall, CJ., and Matthias, J., dissent.