Word: acquitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that strumpets had been taken on wild parties by the state in order to induce them to testify. Mr. Dewey contented himself with a seven-hour answer. Urging the jury not to spare Lucania, he declared: "Unless you are willing to convict the top man you might as well acquit everyone...
Special Investigator (RKO) concerns a criminal lawyer (Richard Dix) who is good at persuading juries to acquit under-worldlings. When he is denounced by an outraged judge and his brother (Owen Davis Jr.) is killed, Dix changes his ways, joins the Department of Justice as a special investigator. The gangsters, having stolen a large amount of gold bullion, buy a Nevada ranch with an abandoned mine ship out the gold as newly-produced metal. Matters are made harder for Dix when he becomes enamored of the ringleader's sister (Margaret Callahan), but he is helped when the "gold miners...
...only after persuasion from the Stolls. Things began to look bad for Robinson Sr., however, when Government agents revealed that they had found in his Nashville home a floor plan of his son's Indianapolis hideout. But the Louisville jury took only seven and a half hours to acquit both Father and Wife Robinson. The latter announced that she would forthwith seek divorce from her fugitive husband on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. During their engagement, he shot...
...last page of the book, where they confront a reader at once exhausted and wrought up by the shocking climax, of the sources of the story. One of these is "a special dispatch to "The New York Times of July 2, 1924, which appeared under this headline: FRENCH ACQUIT & SHOT FOR MUTINY IN 1915; WIDOWS OF TWO WIN REWARDS OF? CENTS EACH...
...Primed & pointed was Lawyer Hogan when the oil scandals of the 1920's raised up a bumper crop of rich men who were thoroughly scared. In 1926 Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny reputedly paid Lawyer Hogan $1,000,000 for persuading a Washington jury to acquit him and onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall of a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills naval oil reserves. Next year Lawyer Hogan tried & failed to keep the U. S. Supreme Court from indignantly canceling that lease on grounds of conspiracy and fraud...