Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Mr. Thompson. Senator "J. Ham," as he used to be known when he was "the best dressed man in the Senate," smiled through his fuzzy yellow-brown whiskers. At length the jury came in with its verdict. The clerk read...
...verdict of the jury was "guilty" for Mr. Means and Colonel Felder, with a recommendation for leniency for the latter (owing to his advanced age). Motions were made to set aside the verdict, but the judge declined to do so. He sentenced Mr. Means to $10,000 fine and two years' imprisonment, and Mr. Felder to the fine alone. Ninety days were given for filing exceptions, bail being set at $10,000, Mr. Means is also on $25,000 bail while awaiting an appeal on sentence for conspiracy to violate the prohibition...
There is a chance that the verdict of the Committee on Constitutional Law will not be sufficient for the bill to go before the joint session. The Committee on Education also may have to pass on the bill before the Legislature can decide upon it. If this is necessary the Committee on Constitutional Law and the Committee on Education will probably sit in a joint session to consider Mr. 'Bates' proposed amendment...
...Berlin, the Cabinet marched in a body to the Presidential mansion and expressed to the President their unbounded faith in him and their gratitude for his great patriotism. But to the man-in-the-street, the verdict was summed up: "President Ebert committed treason against Germany, but you must go to jail for calling him a traitor." Indeed, if the President were guilty of treason, it would seem that Editor Rothardt ought not to have been sentenced; conversely, it goes by implication that the sentence against Rothardt exculpates the President...
Only eleven of the jurors impaneled for the trial decided on the verdict. The twelfth suffered a nervous collapse and was forced to leave the box, counsel agreeing to continue with a jury of eleven. Two of the jury were married during the trial. A special act of the Massachusetts Legislature gave the jurors extra compensation on account of the prolonged neglect of their business. Verdict was given for the plaintiff in $10,534,109 damages...