Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listening to evidence, 14 hours of deliberation, the jury had made up its mind. There was absolute silence in Federal Judge Edward M. Curran's Washington courtroom as silver-haired Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars walked in, smiled faintly, and waited to hear the jury's decision. The verdict: guilty of treason against...
Axis Sally showed no emotion at the verdict, which carries a maximum penalty of death (no traitor has ever been executed in the U.S. for treason against the U.S.), or a minimum of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But as she left the courtroom she indulged in a final bit of defiant dramatics and daffy reasoning that left newsmen wondering if she really knew what the trial had all been about. Said Traitor Gillars: "I wish those who judge me would be willing to risk their lives for America...
...housewife in the cotton town of Darwen, Lancashire, expressed the verdict of millions. "It's not so much what the plan saved me in money," she said, "because if I'd had to pay, I wouldn't have had us all done. I couldn't have afforded it. If we had paid, it would have cost us nearly ?16. Me and the children have all been examined, and the doctor's given me vitamin pills, and ordered two of the children to have specs, and sent another to have exercises for her spine...
...Payoff. Last week, the jurors filed in with their verdict. The flustered foreman, Housewife Lillian Sheehan, said: "We find for the defendant," then hastily corrected herself, "I mean the plaintiff...
...Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said to the jury: "Let your verdict be a strong one. Let it be the kill. Let it be the death blow to all these lies and defamations." The jury's verdict against the vicar, whose yearly salary is ?400: ?1,500 damages, and costs...