Word: snatched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from public institutions, burn their remains. That practice seems to be delicately tied up with a legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two students of what is now Northwestern University snatched a body from a Wisconsin cemetery, dressed it, propped it between them on the seat of their buggy. On the way back to Chicago they stopped at a tavern for drinks. While they were inside two Rush (University of Chicago) medical students drove up on their way to snatch another...
...hypothetical case which Justice Alyce decides, modeled after the facts of the Gooch case, is called Ex parte Snatch. Oscar Snatch, a candidate for the senior class presidency of Siwash College, situated ten miles from a State line, kidnapped his rival, one Jeremiah Kelly, held him for seven days prior to the election. According to Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying...
...opinion denying Snatch's appeal, Justice Alyce says: "Unquestionably Snatch has been engaged in commerce, for no one can deny that he has done something. And precedent is abundant that doing anything is commerce. Thus, cows ranging back and forth over State lines because their owners have neglected to fence them in are engaged in commerce (Thornton v. U. S.). . . . However, Snatch is technical. He says that commerce has to do with trade, business, commercial enterprise, adventure involving profit or loss...
...Snatch claims that a State line cannot be crossed presumptively. ... In law anything may be done presumptively. . . . Since the law does not know that Snatch did not cross the State line, it is perfectly proper to assume that he did. . . . If presumptions of this sort were not permitted district attorneys might be put to considerable trouble to prove their cases. We are not unmindful of certain theoretical difficulties inherent in presuming that State lines have been crossed. For example, it would never do to presume that the United States Steel Corporation is engaged in interstate commerce. Similarly, we could...
...analogy between [the Gooch] case and this is too close to be ignored. If [the Supreme Court] was right then, this court is right now. . . . Judgment affirmed." Lawyer Cowan finally reports that the President denied Kidnapper Snatch's petition for clemency, being a lawyer himself...