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Proper Names. In Topeka, Kans., Ralph Surpluss was chosen as an alternate juror. In Vancouver, B.C., police pressed fighting and swearing charges against Jack Goody...
Said Lawyer Sharpe happily during a recess: "That's perfectly legal. It was pulled on me, 25 years ago, and I've been waiting to use it ever since." And it was legal-under the law in Georgia (and many other states), any juror can testify...
Jurist Prudence. In Memphis, Judge John W. Wilson recessed court for five minutes when Juror Ewell P. Thompson announced that he had to go out and put another nickel in the parking meter...
...from a reputable medical school, Dr. Koch has been peddling "cancer cures" (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934; April 20, 1942). In 1942 he and his office-manager brother Louis were indicted for introducing a misbranded article into interstate commerce. The jury disagreed. The second trial, in 1946, ended when a juror became...
...corner might still wonder. Whatever the causes of the depression, to them Hoover remained its perfect symbol. But the concession was enough to send New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock into fits of dignified glee. Crowed Krock: "A sweeping verdict of 'not guilty,' by this particular juror . . . must have astonished Herbert Hoover more than anything in years...