Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Military Dance Committee, held yesterday afternoon, J. E. Barrett '30, University football captain, was appointed as chairman of the committee which will arrange for the 1930 dance. R. H. O'Connell '30 was appointed treasurer while Harwood Ellis '31, B. W. Frazier '31, L. P. Marks '30, J. C. Prior '31, F. W. Stetson '31 and H. W. Williams '31 complete the staff...
...going to try them out, how- Grath s.s.; J. A. Prior '29, lb.; A. G. Whitney '29, 3b.; Todd, r.f.; B. H. Ticknor '31 and T. W. Gilligan '31, l.f.; J. D. Dudley, c.; Sidel and P. B. Weymouth...
...crimes not felonies or treason. But under the Federal law a crime is a felony or a misdemeanor according to the penalty attached there to and if the crime carries with it a maximum penalty of less than a year as was the case with the Federal Prohibition Law prior to the Jones Bill, then the crime is but a misdemeanor. On the other hand if a penalty of more than one year's imprisonment is authorized the crime is a felony and the convicted person is deemed "infamous". This arbitrary classification has been severely criticized. Thus the court...
Whatever doubt there existed as to the power of Prohibition officials to arrest without a warrant prior to the Jones Bill, it is now clear that not only may officers arrest without a warrant one who violates the Prohibition Law but also a private person is privileged to effect such an arrest. Such is the magic of the term "felony". This situation offers excellent opportunities to fanatical "drys" to further the cause...
Another important effect which results from the Act is that whereas prior to the Jones Law prosecution of violators of the Prohibition Law could be started by an information, now that the selfsame crimes are felonies, there must be a grand jury presentment or indictment as a condition precedent to trial. This will of course increase the burden and cost of Federal Prosecution and will result in additional delays and perhaps in large wet cities in lack of prosecution by Grand Juries. Perhaps the solution will be in a change in the Criminal Code distinction between felonies and misdemeanors...