Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trial Judge Webster Thayer, before whom have come repeated petitions for a new trial has steadfastly refused to consider any of the matter contained in these petitions as important enough to justify reopening th? case. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has also refused to allow appeals taken from the verdict arrived at in Judge Thayer's court, though it should be added that in Massachusetts the Supreme Court is not allowed to pass upon facts but only upon law, could not have considered, for example, the Madeiros confession...
...party in this country will really put itself behind this amendment and in a quarter of a century, even so short a time, it has made no progress, it will be time enough to talk about a repeal of the 18th Amendment and going back to the saloon." The Verdict. And so it seems, as mentioned by Dr. Butler in his rebuttal, that the fundamental difference between these two gentlemen is whether or not the 18th Amendment is constitutional. Nine unofficial judges of the debate decided, six to three, that Mr. Borah and the U. S. Supreme Court decision...
...thus the new evidence must go unheard, even though "if presented to a jury" it might possibly "justify a different verdict". These words are quoted by the Court from a previous case in which the "different verdict" meant a different distribution of property: they are applied to this case in which a "different verdict" means a difference between life and death...
...neither of these two cases has the evidence of guilt beeen absolutely incontestable; in neither case have the tactics of the government prosecution been without their critics. In both cases the defense has refused to accept the verdict, and legal battles extending over many years have been waged. In both cases, also, the verdicts have attracted world-wide interest, and the cause of the defendants has been espoused by many of the most eminent legal minds...
...taken 66 hours last October for another jury to fail reach a verdict on the Miller-Daugherty case (TiME...