Stupid Laws & Dumb Laws

where is this found in the statutes?

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Well, it’s easy in current times to scoff at a law like this. But it shows our ignorance of the crucial importance that some things held in previous times.

There were times in the history of America when a horse was not a luxury, but a necessity: for transportation, and sometimes for livelihood. The theft of a man’s horse could leave him destitute. We don’t take this stuff seriously at all, now . . but the penalty for taking a man’s transportation and livelihood when they were crucial, was the death penalty.

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you may not take horse theft seriously, but I do, To much horse theft is now for horse meat trade.

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Not only his possible livelihood, but to steal a man’s horse (and the supplies which it carries) in the open plains, eighty miles from any help, and he will likely die a rather unpleasant death from exposure, dehydration or starvation. It is absolutely an appropriate sentence in such a situation. It comes from the old standard: “get what you seek to give others.”

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