Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 10 Criminal Procedure - Section 10.64.060 Form of sentence to penitentiary

§ 10.64.060. Form of sentence to penitentiary

In every case where imprisonment in the penitentiary is awarded against any convict, the form of the sentence shall be, that he be punished by confinement at hard labor; and he may also be sentenced to solitary imprisonment for such term as the court shall direct, not exceeding twenty days at any one time; and in the execution of such punishment the solitary shall precede the punishment by hard labor, unless the court shall otherwise order.

[Code 1881 § 1127; 1873 p 243 § 285; 1854 p 124 § 149; RRS § 2208.]

Notes:
Indeterminate sentences: Chapter 9.95 RCW.

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