Word: trial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance of the Ames Competition is not so much that one club has finally emerged from the welter of round-robin debates after a three-year period of trial cases. It lies more in a recognition of the part the Law Clubs have played in the Law School's curriculum. The value of practical forensic discussion is readily attested by the interest of prominent lawyers in the "straw" decision handed down by leading justices of the nation serving as arbiters in the final arguments. The definite need of practical experience combined with legislative theory is well filled by the Ames...
Professor W. C. Greene '11, who has been connected with the Massachusetts selection of candidates, stated last night. "I do not know how long a trial this new redistricting system will be given before it is modified, if it is altered at all. I should not be at all surprised, however, if this new plan became permanent...
...turn would report the details of each case, with recommendations, to the U. S. District Judge who, probably never seeing the offender, would render a decision, pass sentence. If found guilty by this speedy process, the petty defendant would still have the right to appeal for a jury trial...
Here they find a motley gang. "Some had been sentenced and were serving jail terms; others awaited trial or removal to the penitentiary." Old Crow, the stool pigeon trusty, "as bitter as St. Paul, and meaner in heart than Calvin;" the boy from the South who had killed his father; Nitro Dugan, the roving yegg, who had presided at the hobo "kangaroo trial" and execution of One Lung Riley, the ex-bum who had turned railroad detective and knew too much; Brother Jonathon, glib medicine-show barker, pretentious charlatan, kindly man of the world; Hypo Sleigh, the dope fiend, under...
After the first trial, Painter Brush was awarded a verdict of $4,000. The second was a mistrial, and after the third Mrs. Brooks-Aten announced that she would appeal the case first to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court and later, if necessary, to the Court of Appeals (highest court in New York...