LAYTON, Judge.
At common law, the repeal of a penal statute containing no saving clause was held to constitute a bar to the prosecution and punishment of a crime already committed in violation of the statute so repealed. 22 C.J.S., Criminal Law, § 27(b). And there is a large body of respectable authority which has extended this principle to the extreme lengths of including a case
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