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...fisticuffing George Remus, fresh from Atlanta penitentiary for grand scale bootlegging, was on trial last week in Cincinnati for killing his wife. His prosecutor was burly, 190-lb., onetime footballer Charles Phelps Taft, second son of the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court (TIME, Oct. 24). 'Legger Remus' defense counsel was himself. Frenzied under the double strain of standing trial for his life and planning his own defense, 'Legger Remus made a scene...
...produce evidence that it was not first-degree murder. He sought to take depositions from 75 witnesses in various cities- including Attorney General Sargent and Roy A. Haynes- to show that he had killed to elude a plot against his own life and property. For another man, 'Legger Remus preliminaries were meat. He, Charles Phelps Taft II, lanky, a son of the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, nephew and namesake of the publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, outstanding member of an outstanding college class*, found in the Remus case his first opportunity to function with...
Bootleggers. Many a Canadian 'legger is expected to move south to the U. S. The new law makes him superfluous, and even first offense carries six months' sentence, no fine option; repeated offenses carry long sentences. U. S. 'leggers will thus increase...
Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...