Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fall did not take the witness stand in his own defense. Perhaps because he let others try to establish his intent, his jury disbelieved his honesty, convicted him. Doheny, in his trial, took the stand, insisted his intent was good, that the money was only a friendly loan from which he expected no favors. Perhaps it was because he spoke for himself that the jury believed his honesty, freed...
...stand Doheny wept at mention of his son, now deceased, who transferred the money. At exactly the same juncture in Fall's trial and in their joint trial for conspiracy, Doheny also wept...
...committed the offense with her because she has betrayed a marital trust. A bribe-taking public official is likewise more punishable, because he has betrayed a public trust, than the bribe-giver, who is under no specific oath of honesty. The net result of last week's trial was to make the $100,000 Doheny gave Fall a legitimate loan, but the $100,000 Fall took from Doheny a corrupt bribe...
...real first-class competition, provided thrills galore. Ruddy, the Columbia crack long-distance man, provided the major thrill of the evening by defeating his chief rivals Clapp, of Stanford and Ault, of Michigan, in a grilling furlong swim. All three men had already put on stellar exhibitions in trial heats of the 440, and yet they battled through to a hair-breadth finish in the 220. Ruddy was the winner, followed by Clapp, while Ault fell behind in the last stages of the race...
...came as an aftermath of the collapse of the $40,000,000 Julian Petroleum Corp. stock swindle. He was called upon to prosecute the stock cheats under California's corporation laws. He asked dismissal of the charges. This motion Superior Court Judge William Doran denied. The trial dragged to an acquittal. Judge Doran flayed District Attorney Keyes for his "lackadaisical methods of prosecution." Five months later Keyes was indicted for conspiracy to receive a bribe from the men he had so feebly prosecuted in the Julian case. Tried and convicted, he was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment...