Word: convicted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Huey Long of Louisiana woke up early one morning, last week, and thought about shoes. He knew that 1,600 prisoners in the Louisiana State Penitentiary were making their own shoes. He knew that the shoes were very short-lived. Each convict was wearing" out three pairs a year...
...such as is often passed permitting a jury to convict of murder without capital punishment would take care of less serious cases and of cases where there is a shadow of doubt...
...President signed the Cooper-Hawes bill, providing that only States which permit convict-made goods to be sold in competition with commercial goods, can receive and sell convict-made goods from other states...
Thus ended the case of the People of Mississippi v. Charles Shepherd, Negro. The case began when one Sergeant J. B. Duvall, guarding prisoners in a Parchman, Miss., convict camp, whipped Negro-Convict Shepherd. Bruised, angry, the black convict entered the Duvall home, attacked Ruth Duvall, 18, onetime beauty-contest winner. Interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sergeant Duvall, the Negro took a butcher knife, cut the Sergeant's throat, then plunged the knife down the throat he had just slashed. Next he struck the body with an icepick, hitting the back of its head so violently that...
...Miller's life sentence, which began some two weeks before the ninth anniversary of U. S. Prohibition, was purely a Prohibition byproduct, inasmuch as her four convictions had all been found on liquor charges. In 1924, in 1925, in 1927, she had served from six days to a year for violation of the prohibition act. The life sentence was imposed under the Baumes-like Michigan law which establishes four convictions as the test of a "habitual criminal" and sentences such criminals to life terms. Mrs. Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction...