Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, willful violator of the local statute against teaching in state-supported schools "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible . . ." Only a handful of newsgatherers and curious public was present in the Nashville courtroom. The Court had had two sittings since it received the Scopes appeal, a year ago. In the decision handed down last week was a phrase that suggested state pride as a reason for the delay...
...this point Casey opened his eyes and laughed. So did Hallisey. The blood was red ink, the dagger rubber, the fight a charade planned by Professor Wheaton for the purpose of illustrating that the tesimony of eyewitnesses can differ. On Dec. 7, in Professor Wheaton's fully equipped courtroom at the law school, Hallisey will be tried for "assault with intent to kill." Senior law students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals will preside; a real...
This is the question which has been argued time and again on the lecture platform, in the pulpit, and in the courtroom; it is the question which at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Kirtley Mather and Dr. John Reach Straton will argue at the Phillips Brooks House...
Three hundred newspaper men and women sat in a curving, triple arc of chairs facing the judge's bench, the witness stand, the jury box, of a tiny courtroom in Somerville, N. J. The air was stuffy. An angular court crier (John Bunn by name) intoned in a creaky voice, "Hear ye. . . ." The reporters' pencils moved rapidly, their eyes searched the faces of the witnesses, the defendants, the lawyers. Occasionally a truck rumbled through the street outside. In here, a certain Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall and her brothers, the Messrs. Henry and "Willie" Stevens, were on trial...
...murderous thought. From the actual deed itself, he recoils. But he has proceeded so far in his feverish plans that the tide of circumstance sweeps him on. An overturned rowboat, a camera used as a bludgeon, and Roberta drowns, perhaps murdered. The Law bays and quarters. A ghastly courtroom inquisition, a horrible, nerve-wracking, death-cell nightmare, write the final chapter of a well-written, well-acted, well-produced, authentic tragedy...