Word: convict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said one Short Creek leader: "This raid will give us $10 million worth of publicity." The governor hoped that most of the men would not only get prison terms but fines, which might enable the state to attach their property and raze the town. But polygamists are difficult to convict. Perhaps the Short Creek colony was finished, or perhaps it had just been given a big shot...
...Experience. In Richmond, police finally caught up with Escaped Convict Jack Ronald Curtis, learned that he had become a private detective, been assigned to guard a local tobacco plant safe...
Vocational Guidance. In Fort Worth, arrested after printing and cashing $7,000 worth of counterfeit payroll checks, ex-Convict Ralph W. Hedrick told police he had learned his trade in the West Virginia Penitentiary's printing shop...
...thousands of men I've met in my years of confinement, he's the only one I had, and still have, confidence in. I'll back him up one hundred percent." Was it true that he had given $10,000 to another convict last year? Henderson admitted that he had. "I don't know what happened," he added wistfully. "I never heard from him." But Franks, he was cer tain, was different. "He was like my own son. If he squanders it away, well . . . it's his money. But I still have faith...
...Mere embarrassment is not an excuse: the witness must be subjecting himself to some degree of danger of conviction of a criminal offense. There are refinements of this subject beyond the scope of this letter. For example, the immunity under the Fifth Amendment of a witness before a federal agency does not ordinarily extend to exoneration from compulsory self-incrimination of offenses under State law; but recently some lower federal courts have refused to find witnesses guilty of contempt of the 'Kefauver committee' when they refused to answer questions tending to convict them of certain State crimes that committee...