Court Opinion

ID: 9572978
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:46:24.660431+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:34:53.341900
License: Public Domain

Stukes, Justice
(concurring in result).
I respectfully confine my concurrence to the result of the opinion of the Chief Justice, which is affirmance of the judgment, because I do not think that the sentence, which was within the discretion of the trial judge, was unduly harsh. Appellants were convicted upon trial by jury of the unlawful manufacture of alcoholic liquors. The increasing prevalence of this illegal practice is within common knowledge and the revenues of the State from the legal sale of tax-paid liquor have thereby been greatly reduced in recent years. Certain and severe punishment upon conviction is, I think, the most effective deterrent. ■