Commonwealth v. Donoghue
Commonwealth v. Donoghue, 250 Ky. 343, 63 S.W.2d 3 (1933),[1] was a case decided by the Kentucky Court of Appeals involving conspiracy based on common law criminal offenses imported through reception statutes.
| Commonwealth v. Donoghue | |
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| Court | Kentucky Court of Appeals |
| Full case name | Commonwealth v. Donoghue |
| Decided | June 23, 1933 |
| Citation(s) | 250 Ky. 343; 63 S.W.2d 3 |
| Case opinions | |
| Decision by | Stanley |
| Keywords | |
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Background
M. Donoghue and others ran the Boone Loan Company in Kenton County, which was accused of charging usury rates of interest, or loan sharking. The judge created the crime in the case: "a nefarious plan for the habitual exaction of gross injury."[2]
Decision
The Court of Appeals upheld the ability of judges to create common law crimes in the state of Kentucky. Then in 1975 a Kentucky state statute, KRS 500.020, prohibited the prosecution of common law crimes in Kentucky.[3]
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See also
- State v. Palendrano, a similar case in New Jersey which reached a different conclusion.
References
- Commonwealth v. Donoghue, 250 Ky. 343, 63 S.W.2d 3 (1933).
- Dressler, J. Understanding Criminal Law, Fifth Edition. Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. Newark, NJ: 2009, p. 28
- KRS 500.020
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