Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Verdict. After receiving a go-page charge from Judge Barnhill the jury retired. In an hour it came back, pronounced "guilty" upon Defendant Beal and his six codefendants...
...knelt before the jury, lay down on the floor and writhed (acting out Aderholt's death). He lost his boutonniere, got another, lost that too. He shouted at the jury: "Men. do your duty; do your duty, men, and in the name of God and justice render a verdict that will be emblazoned across the sky of America as an eternal sign that justice has been done." He asserted that the union headquarters in Gastonia had been "not a cross-section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing...
...Warren had brought suit against the University of Louvain to force erection of his inscription and collect 2,000,000 francs damages ($55,600) for "violation of contract and artistic rights." The suit dragged on until last week. Then in Louvain a robed and bearded judge read out the verdict...
Last week Judge Ben G. Williams of Frankfort instructed the Franklin County Grand Jury to bring in a Not Guilty verdict on Governor Sampson. Not only had the Governor not sold his textbooks for personal profit (he gave them to his secretary and she sold them). But, said Judge Williams: "Those publishing companies sent the textbooks as samples and they were not accepted as gifts. The resolution [for putting new books into Kentucky schools] required that such samples be sent...
Five trial judges deliberated less than half an hour, then brought in their verdict: Thirty years in prison, of which three years are to be spent in solitary confinement...