Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-04-15 | Page 18 | Court Fines Will Depend on Income

COURT FINES PINES WILL DEPEND ON INCOME April H 14 HAn An unusual system of crimi crimi- criminal criminal nal fines tines to the tho Income of ot the tire or- or offender of offender fender as well as to the serious serious- seriousness seriousness ness ot of the tho crime crimo Is one of the tho unique provisions pro in the proposed reviSion of Sweden's criminal statutes which has hns been recon n mended to the government go by the tho criminal law commission i Attention often orten has been called to the unjust operation of ed In fine I flied within narrow limits To the wealthy man such a II titus tine In no noway noway noway way served as a n deterrent while to the poor man it often became a punishment nt out of ot all nil proportion proportion tion to the seriousness of ot tire tile crime The principle of ot the ei which will sill III doubtless b bo accepted Is that the punish punish- punishment punishment punishment ment by fine for any given of- of offense ot ren o shall wor work with 1 the same sarno enes upon persons of oC var various ar- ar arious Iou ious economic status There are areto areto areto to be two bases for tor fixing the tho fine the novelty being that the tho amount Is divided up Into Inlo daily payments Instead of being lumped In one sum The degree of enormity of oC the tho crime Is to be Indicated hy by hythe bytho tIre the number of oC days daya used as multi multi- multiplier In 10 the tire calculation while the theother other factor tho the sum to i be pud each pach day will will vary ary with the fi- fi financial financial fi financial means mean of ot the offender These amounts may vary nry ary from 5 5 cents to t S BO 50 a 11 day The number of oC days dabs da s shall hahl not be bo less than thaD one I nor more mora than 90 m