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...that any person has been tampering with any witness in respect to any evidence to be given in this House or in committee thereof, or directly or indirectly, has endeavored to defeat or hinder any person from giving evidence, the same is declared to be a High Crime and Misdemeanor, and the House will proceed with the utmost severity against such offender...
...impostors in religion such as pretend to personate Jesus Christ or suffer their followers to worship or pay them divine honors . . . shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.-Chapter 235, section 72, Laws of 1898, New Jersey. This law was cited in a report filed last week in Newark by a three-man committee investigating that inexplicable Negro cultist, Major J. "Father" Divine. The committee was appointed last autumn by Judge Richard Hartshorne as a result of disorderly conduct complaints against a noisy meeting of Father Divine's Newark "Kingdom." Judge Hartshorne took no action last week, left...
When a pet black bear near Albion. N. Y. killed a child last year (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a New York law, effective last month, made lack of "due care" in protecting the public from animals a misdemeanor. In 1923 Connecticut outlawed the use of wild animals for soliciting alms or contributions. A 1927 amendment forbade roadside animal exhibits for commercial purposes...
...Milledgeville, Ga., Roy McCullough was sent to prison for a misdemeanor, found his father Alvin, whom he had not seen for 21 years, in the death cell awaiting execution for murder...
...driving through Delaware at night this summer and find the highways glimmering with bobbing lights, do not mistake them for fireflies. They will be pedestrians. Last week Governor Clayton Douglass Buck signed a bill making it a misdemeanor for a citizen to tramp the highways after dark unlit by flashlight or lantern...