PUNISHMENT

In criminal law. Any pain, penalty, suffering, or confinement inflicted upon a person by the authority of the law and the judgment and sentence of a court, for some crime or offense committed by him, or for his omi ion of a duty' enjoined by law. See Cummings v. Mi ouri, 4 Wall. 320, 18 L. E'd. 356; Feather stone v. People, 194 Ill. 325, 62 N. E. 684; Ex parts Howe, 26 Or. 181, 37 Pac. 536; State v. Grant, 79 Mo. 129, 49 Am. Rep. 218. -Cruel and unusual punishm.ent. Such punishment as would amount to torture or bar• barity, and any cruel and degrading punishment not known to the common law, and also any punishment so disproportionate to the offense aa to shock the moral sense of the c<l!D.munity. In re Bayard, 26 Hun (N. Y.) 646; State v. Driver, 78 N. C. 423; In re Ke=ler, 136 U. S. 436, 10 Sup. Ct. 930, 34 L. Ed. 519; Wilkerson v. Utah, 99 U. S. 130, 26 L. Ed. 345; State v. Williams, 77 Mo. 310; McDonald v. Com., 173 Ma . 322, 53 N. ID. 874, 73 Am. St. Rep. 293; People v. Morris, 80 Mich. 638, 45 N. W. 591, 8 L. R..A.. -685. [s. 972]