Word: rearrest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Justice Is Done. In Dallas, a few days after obtaining the release of Dewey Leon Hipp, jailed for drunkenness, Attorney Abe Byers asked police to rearrest his client, angrily explained: "He gave me a hot check...
...Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor, who had been arresting Communists on charges of vagrancy, thought there ought to be a more specific charge. He pushed a new ordinance through the city commission, banishing Communists from Birmingham on pain of a maximum $100 fine, 180-day jail sentence and constant rearrest. A Communist, said Bull's ordinance, was anyone caught talking to a Communist in a "nonpublic place," or anyone who passed out literature that could be traced, even remotely, to a Communist hand...