Word: laws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Eve, 1927, Marshall Ratliff disguised himself as Santa Claus and, with three companions, robbed a bank at Cisco, Tex., killed two policemen. Captured and condemned to death, Robber Ratliff was returned to the county jail at Eastland, Tex., to undergo a sanity test. Eastlanders grumbled at the law's delay. Feigning paralysis, Ratliff last week snatched a gun from Jailor Tom Jones, killed him, but failed to escape...
...Lynching is a crime punishable by death. . . . The law can't be enforced by violating it. . . . Unfortunate...
What the Treasury Department in Washington characterized as a "wide de- parture," what many a Wet construed as a reduction of the law to an absurdity, what many a Dry welcomed as a solution of the problem of punishing liquor buyers occurred last week in the U. S. District Court at Peoria, 111. There Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry laid down a new and startling interpretation of the Jones...
...Five & Ten") Law which would in effect make felons of countless U. S. citizens...
...Fitzhenry judicial reasoning: The Jones Law raised liquor violations from misdemeanors to felonies. The half-for-gotten misprision of felonies law (1790) makes any person who fails to report a felony within his personal knowledge himself guilty of a felony. Therefore, ruled Judge Fitzhenry...