Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With ardent young Welsh folk singing native songs outside the courtroom at Carnarvon last week, three Welsh Nationalists stood in the dock charged with malicious destruction of King Edward's property. Did or did not a Welsh pastor, a Welsh author and a Welsh schoolmaster burn buildings of the British Royal Air Force bombing school near Pwllheli (pronounced "pool-thélly"), Wales, thereby causing $10,000 damage...
After this passionate outburst the jury found themselves unable to agree, and as the three incendiaries walked out of the courtroom to await the next assizes they were shouldered on high by festive Welsh crowds who cheered wildly whenever Pastor Valentine mentioned "governmental iniquity...
Last week in a Murfreesboro, Ark. courtroom a Negro named Charles Gentry, charged with murder, sat down for trial before a jury of his peers, found himself looking into twelve faces black as his own. Before testimony began his white lawyer pleaded unsuccessfully for dismissal of the charge because a white grand jury voted his black client's indictment. Sixty-five minutes after the testimony was completed and the State had made a plea for the death penalty, the twelve Negro sawmill workers found Negro Gentry guilty of slaying Negro Jasper Evans, sentenced him to five years...
...Galsworthy that we see, for the completely impartial presentation has sure earmarks of that placid soul. The favor of the spectator is skillfully kept hanging in the balance, and the genius of the conceiving spirit makes amends for the occasional crudity of the production, such as the very drab courtroom scenes. Mr. Rathbone's support is good but not notable...
...court, voicing doubts as to the prisoner's guilt, arguing out alleged weaknesses in the State's case, all in advance ... of the termination of the criminal proceeding in court." Denounced were the use of press or cinema cameras and the introduction of broadcasting apparatus in the courtroom, post-trial "vaudeville appearances" by jurors...