Word: misdemeanor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State, it is no great crime to spit in a subway car or on the street. It is no great crime to wake sleeping citizens with ribald songs, to walk on the grass. According to the State statutes these are only misdemeanors, minor offences which are not felonies. For a misdemeanor, a man may spend at most a year in jail, pay a $500 fine...
...haggard jury said GUILTY after 24 hours of bickering. Justice Arthur Sidney Tompkins gave the maximum penalty. Many were shocked. It appeared that conspiracy to defraud the city, when millions were involved, was simply a misdemeanor. Mr. Connolly was sentenced to a year in jail, a fine of $500. Criminally he had attained no greater stature than a subway spitter...
Engineer Frederick Seely, aide-de-camp of Mr. Connolly, was also convicted of misdemeanor. His sentence was suspended. Mr. Connolly had hardly spent two days in welfare island prison when Lawyer Steuer obtained a certificate of reasonable doubt on the conviction. Mr. Connolly was released on $5,000 bail. Glum experts figured that unless the grafters could be forced to surrender some $10,000,000, the sewer conspiracy would cost every man, woman & child in Greater New York...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...
Perjury should be made a misdemeanor instead of a felony to insure more convictions...