Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the law they had to trust their recollection on all the things that had been said in court during the three-week trial. They had heard Prosecutor Kelley's witnesses give an account of Kahahawai's kidnapping and the discovery of his corpse. They had listened to Lieut. Massie's long story of how his wife had been ravished, its effect on his mind, his success in extorting a confession from Kahahawai just before, with a revolver in his hand, his mind went blank. Pretty young Thalia Fortescue Massie had dramatically corroborated her husband's tale. Alienists had sworn...
...Edinburgh trial, in 1857, of one Madeleine Smith (which was also the inspiration for Dishonored Lady, played by Katharine Cornell on the Manhattan stage) was the source of Letty Lynton. Whatever evil effect the picture may have on the behavior of its patrons will be increased by the fact that it'is a well-constructed, well-written melodrama which avoids the stencils of its type. Nils Asther is a blonde athlete from Stockholm Yet he wears fuzzy sideburns and speaks in such a way as to be the epitome of Latin menace. There is another immoral character...
...novel plot. The hero is an unsuccessful newspaper reporter. Accidentally present at the scene of a murder, he sees a chance to make himself comparatively rich and famous by: 1) planting incriminating evidence against himself 2) getting arrested for the crime, 3) writing his own account of the trial for his newspaper 4) introducing, at the last minute evidence that will exonerate him and catch the real culprits off their guard. His plan fails in the last detail. The evidence- a purse containing the name of the murderer's companion-is stolen and young Chick Brian (Eric Linden) seems...
Insanity v. Sanity filled the final days of the trial. From Los Angeles Drs. Thomas James Orbison and Edward Huntington Williams, frequent participants in Pacific Coast criminal trials, were summoned to testify for the defense. Alienist Orbison swore that Lieut. Massie was suffering from "delirium with ambulatory automatism" at the time of the shooting but that he was quite sane now. Dr. Williams declared that Lieut. Massie's glands were responsible for his unbalanced condition, that he had been temporarily afflicted with "chemical insanity or shock amnesia." Both experts agreed that his troubles had been brought on by intense...
...days the trial was delayed while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...