Word: hitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Court of Massachusetts; Honorable J. M. Morton '91, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts; Honorable J. C. Knox, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York. For Friday, November 20, Honorable S. R. Moulton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont; Honorable William Hitz '95, Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, and Honorable J. A. Lowell '94, United States District Judge for the District of Massachusetts...
...Cabinet colleague Albert Bacon Fall, now No. 6991 in the New Mexico State Penitentiary. Bribee Fall's plea for executive clemency got no farther than the Department of Justice where Attorney General Mitchell announced that it was automatically denied because it lacked the approval of Trial Judge William Hitz and Prosecutor Atlee Pomerene...
Though still bronchially ill, the 68-year-old defendant was able to walk into court to hear himself sentenced by Justice William Hitz. The jury had recommended mercy. Justice Hitz said firmly: "Under normal physical conditions {this case} would warrant and require the imposition of the maximum penalty [fine: $300,000 (thrice the bribe); three years imprisonment ]. . . . Because of the recommendation of the jury for mercy I will impose upon Mr. Fall a fine of $100,000 and imprisonment for one year...
...Fall accepted the prison sentence, Justice Hitz said he would, because of Fall's broken health, have suspended it indefinitely. But Fall accepted the full sentence to complete his case for appeal which he will carry first to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and then on to the same U. S. Supreme Court which in 1926 branded him "a faithless public officer'' on the same evidence when in a civil suit it voided the Doheny-Fall lease for the Elk Hills naval oil reserve...
...Justice Hitz made a strong charge to the jury, instructing them to seek and weigh Fall's intent, warning them against the sentimental appeals of the defense. Lawyer Hogan and Oilman Doheny were infuriated by this charge, vehemently contending that it had robbed Defendant Fall of a fair trial by jury. The exceptions to the Hitz charge and the introduction of the Sinclair evidence formed the basis for a demand for a new trial or, if denied, for appeal...