Word: corpus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MacCracken's lawyer, Frank J. Hogan, had been fruitlessly trying for a week to get his client out of the jurisdiction of the Senate and into the jurisdiction of some court. He now asked for four days in which to enter another habeas corpus plea. Prisoner Brittin's counsel made a similar request. Both were granted and both prisoners, accompanied by the Senate's Sergeant-at-Arms Chesley W. Jurney, clumped off to a second-floor room of the Willard...
...lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with the Senate. Mr. Hogan wanted Mr. Jurney to arrest his client in a court where a writ of habeas corpus could at once be obtained for Mr. MacCracken's release. Thus for two days the majesty of the Senate and the craft of Mr. Hogan were deadlocked. Then the Senate adjourned for the weekend and Mr. Hogan moved. At 7:30 on Saturday evening while Sergeant Jurney and his wife...
Then the young lady hurried off. Half an hour later the doorbell rang and Mr. Jurney decided to answer it himself. At the door was a U. S. deputy marshal who read him a writ of habeas corpus ordering him to present his prisoner in court on Monday morning. Mr. Jurney protested he had no prisoner but would appear in court on Monday morning. Then arrived other visitors: newshawks, photographers...
...Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate, but his own client came when Lawyer Garnett announced he was pondering charging...
...executed by a firing squad, but Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt, to whom capital punishment was abhorrent, acting in the absence of Secretary Daniels, commuted Menafee's sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could save Gus Menafee was Franklin Roosevelt with an executive pardon...