Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While reporting a murder trial in a North Georgia mountain town last year, I heard Pepper make an argument to the jury which almost had me in tears-and I was used to such things...
...lawyer, "that General Denhardt shot Mrs. Taylor when she told him she could not go through with their marriage as planned. The truth of the matter is that Mrs. Taylor was begging the General to marry her. He will tell the truth about this when the day of his trial comes...
...Castle's packed courtroom was surrounded by State police and deputy sheriffs when General Denhardt, bluff, 6 ft. 2 in., 220-lb. veteran of three wars, appeared for an examining trial. George Baker, the farmer who had pushed the General's stalled car into his driveway and later heard two shots, took the stand. The first shot, he said, had sounded "awful loud, awful near." He had gone out in the yard, had glimpsed the General standing by his car, then heard a second shot, "like a popgun or a .22 rifle." General Denhardt had explained that...
...County to supervise the Democratic primary, charging that the forces of Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler were planning to steal votes from the Laffoon-backed candidate. Cited for criminal contempt of court, he hid for days, issued defies to Harlan County authorities, was pardoned by Governor Laffoon before going to trial. When Governor Chandler took office, General Denhardt retired to his 800-acre farm near La Grange...
...renting their property as trailer camps. Hildred Gumarsol, who at first talked of going to the State Supreme Court if necessary, became so pessimistic that he packed up his trailer, left town, first martyr of the brave new trailer world. Last week his pessimism was justified. Justice Green held trial with Gumarsol absent. His decision: that Gumarsol had violated the law and that "trailer shantytowns" would no longer be allowed in Orchard Lake. Fining Defendant Gumarsol only $1 plus $3.10 costs, Justice Green declared: "We gave him a break because we knew this was an important test case...