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LINDSEY v. WASHINGTON

No. 660.

301 U.S. 397 (1937)

LINDSEY ET AL. v. WASHINGTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 17, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Spencer Gordon for petitioners.

Messrs. C.C. Quackenbush and Ralph E. Foley, with whom Mr. A.O. Colburn was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case certiorari was granted to review a decision of the Supreme Court of Washington, 187 Wn. 346; 61 P.2d 293, that Chapter 114 of the Laws of Washington, 1935, under which petitioners were sentenced to terms of imprisonment, is not an ex post facto law prohibited by Article I, § 10, of the Federal Constitution.

Petitioners were convicted in the state court of the crime of grand larceny...

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