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Commonwealth v. Donoghue

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Commonwealth v. Donoghue, 63 S.W.2d 3 (KY 1933), was a case decided by the Kentucky Court of Appeals involving conspiracy based on common law criminal offenses imported through reception statutes.

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."[1]

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.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dressler, J. Understanding Criminal Law, Fifth Edition. Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. Newark, NJ: 2009, p. 28
  2. ^ KRS 500.020
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