People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — “JAG CURE LAW” DEAD. [ARTICLE]

“JAG CURE LAW” DEAD.

Supreme Court of Miehigan Effectually Knocks Out the Statute. Lansing, Mich., Feb. 22.— The supreme court has knocked out what is known as Michigan’s “jag cure law” of 1893. The law authorized justices, in their discretion, to sentence disorderlies to take the cure for Lbe liquor habit. The court says the law in effect permits unofficial persons to prescribe rules acquitting persons charged with crime and they may be variable as corporations are numerous, and it is notin the province of legislation to delegate to private corporations power to make laws for the discharge of offenders.