Court Opinion

ID: 7480858
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 03:55:30.727608+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:31.434936
License: Public Domain

I vote to remand for proper sentencing under Code 1940, T. 15, § 287 which reads:
 "Any act or omission declared criminal and punishable in different ways by different provisions of law, shall be punished only under one of such provisions, and a conviction or acquittal under any one shall bar a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other provision."
Wade, supra, cited by the prosecution and by my Brother Tyson, is a case involving habeas corpus for bail before
conviction. The language employed under [2] of the opinion is explanatory and was hypothesized on the possibility of a double conviction.
I cannot see how the concept of a single punishment within § 287, supra, can be met by an overlap of one sentence which is three times as long as the other.