Word: acquitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense did not even need to call its witnesses. As soon as the sketchy pleas of the prosecution had been presented. Judge Charles C. Nott Jr. directed the jury to acquit the prisoner...
Montesquieu regarded the severity of laws as a definite hindrance to their execution. Juries will acquit and Grand Juries will not indict where a majority in the community oppose such sumptuary laws as is the Prohibition...
...highly melodramatic scenes show the take-off of Lindbergh from Roosevelt Field and his landing at Le Bourget. In both the technical staff of the Chatelet Theatre, famed specialists in scenic effects, nobly acquit themselves...
...stated that his own actions on the night in question were merely to take Miss Savage, 22, whom he had known about six months, to dinner, and later to stroll & sit with her in the park. The Court looked again upon the young man, pondered, proceeded to acquit Sir Leo & Miss Savage, and lastly assessed costs of ?10 ($49) against the two too officious bobbies. As Miss Savage left the court the young man swept her into his arms and hugged...
Proponents of war, if any still dare so to style themselves, have excused the slaughter of millions on Malthusian grounds of reasoning; but not even the most heartless science can acquit humanity of guilt in the destruction of its noblest attainments. And still the nations, without even the wisdom of a burnt child, rush to heap ever higher their piles of weapons, that they know must inevitably, unless some power can stop the insane contest, fall upon them and bury them once more...