 | Iowa. Supreme Court - 1905 - 960 lapas
...Legislature, not in the judicial department It is the Legislature, not the court, which is to define crime and ordain its punishment. It is said that, notwithstanding this rule, the intention of the lawmakers must govern in the construction of penal as well as other statutes. This is true. But this... | |
 | 1918 - 1162 lapas
...settled that 'though penal laws are to be construed strictly, yet the intention of the legislature must govern in the construction of penal as well as other statutes; and they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious Intention of the legislature.'... | |
 | 1905 - 968 lapas
...settled that "though penal laws are to be construed strictly, yet the intention of the legislature must govern in the construction of penal as well as other statutes ; and they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the Legislature."... | |
| |
But this is not a new, independent rule, which subverts the old. It is a modification of the ancient maxim, and amounts to this: that, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention... 
