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Title: History of the bench and bar of California: being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Shuck, Oscar T. (Oscar Tully), 1843-1905
Subjects: Lawyers Judges Courts Celebrated cases
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal. : The Commercial printing house
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as wasprescribed by the original statute of the State. Many cases similar to the above might be given. Three men were hangedin Sacramento in 1851 for a not very aggravated case of highway robbery.We had occasion many years ago to make allusion to these early trials, andthereupon a well-known editor of the time made these observations: No doubt at this distance the infliction of capital punishment for felonies otherthan murder must seem to have been draconian to an extent almost inconceivable.But at the time there could hardly be said to be organized society in California. Thesternest measures were necessary to keep the vicious in subjection. The condition ofthings was as primitive as when the death penalty was prescribed in England for rob-bery. But when society in California became strong enough to deal with criminalsof all grades and had jails to keep them in, our code became more mild—perhaps insome cases now, too mild. THE EDITOR. THE RECOVERY OFTHE PIOUS FUND HON. JOHN 7. DOYLE
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