Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury deliberated briefly; reached their verdict; returned to the courtroom. Defendant Norris had come back. Mrs. Norris and their two boys-J. Frank Jr., 16, home from Culver Military Academy for the excitement, and George Louis, 10-huddled near him. Dexter E. Chipps Jr., 14, stared over at them. Bailiffs and deputy sheriffs stood in pompous readiness to shoot. "The punishment," said Judge Hamilton, "for anyone creating any disturbance or demonstration in this courtroom will be $100 or three days in jail." Then the jury foreman read off the verdict of not guilty...
...exhibition argument Saturday night, the University debaters won a unanimous verdict over Bates College at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire...
...will never have any difficulty in disposing of their own estates. The critics may rest assured?it was not a hasty will. It was a very far-sighted will. And the man who made it expected to face his Creator and was willing to stand or fall on His verdict...
...under false pretenses of peace. . . . [Referring to the Nobel award of Vice President Dawes]. Some nations unable to bear the burdens of victory fell prey to so-called economists who were nothing more than agents of international finance. The Dawes Plan aims to give the great War the judicial verdict of a bankruptcy trial. Where is there peace in all this? The Dawes Plan has nothing in common with peace...
...jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...