Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River...
...arguments the defense used to wedge a loophole through which Hauptmann might escape the death penalty, five were outstanding. It was argued that Hauptmann had been deprived of his constitutional rights when Justice Thomas W. Trenchard had admitted the kidnap ladder in evidence at the trial. Also cited was his "misleading" charge to the jury. The defense contended that Prosecutor Wilentz had improperly switched during the trial from the assumption that Hauptmann had killed the child by dropping it outside the house to the theory that he had killed the child in its crib with a chisel. Particularly was Prosecutor...
Last week, still looking a little surprised, Daniel Shaw appeared at the trial of dark, thin-lipped, high-cheek-boned Lois Thompson, 18, charged with assault with intent to kill. Calm as her Cherokee ancestors, Lois Thompson told her story. Last winter she had refused Daniel Shaw a dance date. Shortly thereafter came the first of a series of extortion notes, threatening her with death unless she handed over $3,000. Daniel Shaw was the gang's agent. On the afternoon of March 27 he had set out to kidnap or kill her. She had decided to kill...
Round No. 3, which ended last week, was a victory for ASCAP. Though the Government had insisted on beginning the trial this month, its witnesses wavered so under cross-examination that it was glad to adjourn to bolster up its case. Witness William J. Benning, musical director of Radio Station WTMJ in Milwaukee, asserted that he would be unable to operate without the popular music in ASCAP's catalog. ASCAP controls many an orchestration where it does not control the original tune. Milwaukee's Benning admitted that in such cases his station chose to use ASCAP...
...tunes most in demand.) The Government has contended that music is a physical thing-a commodity which is transmitted from State to State. Burkan's persistent retort has been that music is "intangible and incorporeal." Lawyer Thomas Day Thacher. U. S. Solicitor General under Herbert Hoover, entered the trial to argue that ASCAP existed only to protect the rights of composers and lyric writers, pooh-poohed the idea that the organization was potent enough to dominate an industry which includes such interests as American Telephone & Telegraph Co., General Electric, Westinghouse, Radio Corporation of America...