Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1887 — Hanging for Stealing. [ARTICLE]

Hanging for Stealing.

In reply to an inquiry of a correspondent as to -whether there ever a law in California since its admission as a State attaching the death penalty to the crime of grand larceny, the correct answer is, Yes. The Legislature passed an act in April, 1851, amendatory of a former act, making the penalty for both robbery and grand larceny imprisonment in the State prison not less than one year or more than ten years, or death, in the discretion of the jury. The stealing of money or property of any kind to the value of SSO or more constituted then, as it does now, grand larceny. There were several executions under this act. The- same amendatory act made petty larceny (stealing any sum or value of property less than 550) punishable by imprisonment in the County Jail not more than six months, or a tine not more than SSO >, or by any number of lashes not exceeding fifty, on the bare back, or by such tine, imprisonment, and lashes, at the discretion of the jury. —San Francisco Gall.

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