Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then read a verdict...
...judges returned and delivered the following verdict: 1) that both the ladies were arguing for the affirmative; 2) that Mrs. Broun won; 3) that Mrs. Manners was the more persuasive...
...cannot settle themselves or for which they want a wide international "moral underwriting" of the decision. We should be the only Great Power on the bench of the Court which is not a member of the League Council. When our representative is simply a judge helping to render the verdict in accordance with the evidence, or the technicalities of the law, is it not possible to suppose, unless the contrary is clearly understood before we enter the Court, that his vote may be taken to imply the approval or disapproval of the United States in some question that...
...duty like other general terms is often misconstrued. A whole creed and one which has had no little effect on human history is based on the value of each human life. So there are those who doubt the ultimate truth of this verdict. The courts of law at best deal rather inadequately with those criminals who are obviously sane. But when such a case as this boy's who has always been the wandering, misunderstanding victim of a cerebral insufficiency comes before the bar of justice, then the limitations of human law stand fully revealed...
...Leaving that aside, I have my own interests and grievances as a citizen. My wife suffered from laming traumatic dislocation for eight years. Thanks to the obsolete training maintained by the General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic...