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...Chicago last week one John A. Morrison, juror in an embezzlement trial, sucked at a whiskey bottle during the proceedings, hiccoughed all through recesses, was too drunk for coherence during the voting, had to be tubbed, caused a mistrial, was held for contempt of court, got ten days in jail...
Died. Pat Malloy, 49, Tulsa lawyer & oilman (Malloy & Co.); suddenly, of coronary occlusion; in an Eldorado, Ark. hotel. As county prosecutor 20 years ago he made such a brilliant closing argument in a murder case that the judge declared a mistrial. Appointed Assistant Attorney General by President Roosevelt last year to war on kidnappers and racketeers, he startled lawyers by advocating Federalized police and disregard of Constitutional guarantees, resigned when Attorney General Cummings disavowed his policies (TIME. Oct. 16 et ante...
...journalism for nearly two generations. An old-line Radical, it is his proudest boast that he is the only U. S. cartoonist ever to be tried for sedition as a result of his pacifist pictures in the old Masses during the War. (Two jury disagreements resulted in a mistrial.) "Art" Young has two predilections, Hell and trees. His interest in Hell started as a boy when he used to pore over the family copy of Dore's Dante. . His first book of infernal drawings, Hell Up to Date was published in 1892. Another followed in 1901. A third appeared...
...year and three months since the nine Scottshoro boys were put in the Death House in Birmingham to await electrocution after an obvious mistrial. In that time the case has been reviewed by the supreme Court of Alabama and finally by the United States Supreme Court. All the latter could do, although if found the trial unfair, was to order retrial in the same court and probably under mach the same conditions...
Just before Senator Davis was to have taken the witness stand, an alarmed and voluble juror telephoned defense counsel, reported that an alternate juror was "poisoning the rest of the jury" against the Senator. When informed of this call the judge promptly declared a mistrial, cleared the alternate juror after his colleagues denied anything improper in his conduct. The talkative juror, who had been drinking, was held for possible contempt of court and Moose Davis asked to have his trial set over until after election...