This statute was merely a reenactment of prior statutes which have preserved common law crimes and made them part of our jurisprudence. |
Although this language was judge-made, it used to be treated as if it was the language of statute. |
An appropriately drawn limitation statute would surely produce a more just result. |
The punishments for violating the statute did not vary by condition, but by race and gender. |
That is contrary to the statute which has conferred upon it the power of rehearing and the duty to rehear and redetermine these cases. |
With minimal direction given in statute, jurists wrote case law in response to specific claims brought before them. |