Court Opinion

ID: 9548216
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 17:59:47.175776+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:18:38.693418
License: Public Domain

KEETON, Justice.
In this proceeding the majority opinion justifies the sentencing of a boy fifteen years of age to the penitentiary for life on the ground that the crime for which he was convicted was heinous and brutal.
Crimes of violence against the person of another are in most cases committed with brutality and cruelty and are many times sadistic in nature.
Viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the State, appellant committed two major crimes: First, assault with intent to commit murder; second, sodomy. The punishment for the crime of assault with intent to commit murder is imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for not less •than one, nor more than fourteen years. Sec. 18-4015, I.C.
I can find no precedent that justifies the severity of the sentence imposed and am of the opinion the sentence should be reduced to a maximum of fourteen years.
In other respects I concur.