Word: writ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thomas' sentence: $100 fine and three days in jail. The State Supreme Court let Thomas out on a writ of habeas corpus to keep a date with General Marshall...
...Army had taken him to India, and it was there, Llewellyn claims, that he wrote the first draft of How Green Was My Valley. The final draft was writ ten on London park benches while he was jobless. In between he had been a boxer (his nose is slightly out of joint), a film extra, a reporter for a penny film paper, an assistant movie director and scenarist...
...Writ by hand. Al Botts
...persistent deputy marshal began stalking the Military Governor with a summons. Finally, after five days of hare-&-hounds, jaunty Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr. accepted service. When he failed to show up in Judge Metzger's court, he was fined $5,000 for contempt (ignoring the writ...
...Nellie" Richardson retaliated with a curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...