Word: ladner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Is "Assault?" In 1944 a Mississippi moonshiner named Lovander Ladner ambushed two federal revenuers, wounding both with one shotgun blast-or maybe more than one. Convicted of two violations of a federal law prohibiting "assault" on a federal officer, Ladner was sentenced to two ten-year prison terms. After serving one term, he appealed on the ground that he had fired only one shot and was therefore guilty of only one "assault." Overruling lower courts, the Supreme Court found the plea valid. Noting that the same law makes it an offense to "impede" a federal officer, the court asked...
Near Miss. In Natchez, Miss., Secretary of State Heber Ladner, addressing the League of Women Voters, solemnly began: "It thrills my soul whenever I come to the historic city of Vicksburg," discovered that he had begun reading the wrong speech...