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People V. Riser [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Dec 1956

People V. Riser [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

In a capital murder prosecution, a trial court's grant of the prosecution's challenge to a juror, who stated that in no event would he vote for the death penalty, was not error.


West Virginia Habitual Criminal Law, Londo H. Brown Dec 1956

West Virginia Habitual Criminal Law, Londo H. Brown

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Compelling The Testimony Of Political Deviants, O. John Rogge Dec 1956

Compelling The Testimony Of Political Deviants, O. John Rogge

Michigan Law Review

At the last term the United States Supreme Court in Ullmann v. United States upheld the constitutionality of paragraph (c) of a federal act of August 1954 which seeks to compel the testimony of communists and other political deviants. Paragraph (c) relates to witnesses before federal courts and grand juries. The Court specifically left open the question of the validity of paragraphs (a) and (b) relating to congressional witnesses. Justice Frankfurter delivered the Court's opinion. Justice Douglas, with the concurrence of Justice Black, wrote a dissent.

It is our purpose to consider the background, history and terms of this compulsory …


People V. Bridgehouse, Jesse W. Carter Nov 1956

People V. Bridgehouse, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Defendant's conviction for second-degree murder was reduced to manslaughter where the evidence showed that defendant went into shock upon seeing his wife's lover at his mother-in-law's house and where defendant had never threatened the victim.


People V. Linson, Jesse W. Carter Nov 1956

People V. Linson, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Defendant was properly convicted of second degree burglary because there was sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict, and the prosecutor did not commit prejudicial misconduct in his closing argument to the jury.


Caritativo V. Teets [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Nov 1956

Caritativo V. Teets [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Writ of mandate would not issue to compel warden to institute proceedings to determine present sanity of defendant awaiting execution of death penalty after warden determined that there was not good reason to believe defendant was presently insane.


Torts - Libel And Slander - Calling A Person A Communist As Slader Per Se, Ross Kipka S.Ed. Nov 1956

Torts - Libel And Slander - Calling A Person A Communist As Slader Per Se, Ross Kipka S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In an action for slander, plaintiff alleged that on three separate occasions defendant had orally called or referred to plaintiff as a communist. The court rendered judgment against the defendant, holding that calling a person a communist is slander per se. On appeal, held, affirmed. Since membership in the Communist Party is a felony under Pennsylvania statute, falsely referring to a person as being a communist is slander per se. Solosko v. Paxton, (Pa. 1956) 119 A. (2d) 230.


Constitutional Law - Criminal Law - Power Of Federal Government To Commit Mentally Incompetent Persons Charged With Federal Crimes, William C. Becker S.Ed. Nov 1956

Constitutional Law - Criminal Law - Power Of Federal Government To Commit Mentally Incompetent Persons Charged With Federal Crimes, William C. Becker S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was indicted for robbery from a United States Post Office. After a series of hearings and examinations, the district court found petitioner so mentally incompetent that he could not stand trial, and that, if released, he would probably endanger the safety of the officers, property, or other interests of the United States. The district court ordered petitioner committed to the custody of the Attorney General for confinement in a mental institution. This order was affirmed by the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, one judge dissenting. On certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States, held, …


Constitutional Law - Courts-Martial - Power Of Congress To Provide For Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians, Whitmore Gray S.Ed. Nov 1956

Constitutional Law - Courts-Martial - Power Of Congress To Provide For Military Jurisdiction Over Civilians, Whitmore Gray S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

During the past term the Supreme Court decided three cases involving the constitutionality of court-martial jurisdiction over certain groups of civilians. In United States ex rel. Toth v. Quarles the Court held that Congress could not constitutionally provide for military trial of a discharged serviceman for offenses committed during his term of service. In two subsequent cases the Court rejected the contention that the Toth decision announced a principle applicable to any exercise of jurisdiction over civilians by the military courts in upholding the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice for military jurisdiction over civilian dependents accompanying American …


People V. Cole [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter Oct 1956

People V. Cole [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Medical opinion as to whether the victim's wound could have been self-inflicted was admissible and sufficient evidence supported the verdict finding defendant guilty of first-degree murder.


Shoplifting-An Analysis Of Legal Controls Oct 1956

Shoplifting-An Analysis Of Legal Controls

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law—False Pretenses, June Murray Oct 1956

Criminal Law—False Pretenses, June Murray

Buffalo Law Review

People v. LeGrande, 309 N. Y. 420, 131 N. E. 2d 712 (1956).


Criminal Law—Possession Of Dangerous Weapons, June Murray Oct 1956

Criminal Law—Possession Of Dangerous Weapons, June Murray

Buffalo Law Review

People v. Spillman, 309 N. Y. 295, 130 N. E. 2d 625 (1955).


Criminal Law—Vagrancy, Richard G. Birmingham Oct 1956

Criminal Law—Vagrancy, Richard G. Birmingham

Buffalo Law Review

People v. Moss, 309 N. Y. 429, 131 N. E. 2d 717 (1956).


Miscellaneous—Labor Law—Payment Of Wages, Robert Rosinski Oct 1956

Miscellaneous—Labor Law—Payment Of Wages, Robert Rosinski

Buffalo Law Review

People v. Vetri, 309 N.Y. 401, 131 N.E. 2d 568 (1955).


Criminal Law—Corrupt Influencing Of Agents, Robert Rosinski Oct 1956

Criminal Law—Corrupt Influencing Of Agents, Robert Rosinski

Buffalo Law Review

People v. Jacobs, 309 N. Y. 315, 130 N. E. 2d 636 (1955).


Criminal Law And Procedure -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, James B. Earle Aug 1956

Criminal Law And Procedure -- 1956 Tennessee Survey, James B. Earle

Vanderbilt Law Review

Homicide: Involuntary manslaughter by automobile was involved in the case of Smith v. State.' The evidence tended to show that while the defendant was operating his automobile at a speed of possibly 40 miles per hour, he attempted to turn at a dead-end intersection, skidded on loose gravel, and struck his victim at a point approximately four feet off the street. It also appeared that the victim was a child of six who was playing on a bridge leading to a school; that the accident occurred on Christmas day; and that the defendant had consumed an unknown quantity of intoxicating …


Recent Extensions Of Felony Murder Rule Jul 1956

Recent Extensions Of Felony Murder Rule

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law--Felony-Murder--Statutory Interpretation, G. T. L. Jun 1956

Criminal Law--Felony-Murder--Statutory Interpretation, G. T. L.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law, Theordore D. Zylstra Jun 1956

Criminal Law, Theordore D. Zylstra

Washington Law Review

Covers cases on: bigamy—necessity of proving continued cohabitation; aiding and abetting—presence with intent to render assistance; and negligent homicide—degree of negligence required.


Criminal Law--Insane Persons--Competency To Stand Trial, H. R. A. Jr. Jun 1956

Criminal Law--Insane Persons--Competency To Stand Trial, H. R. A. Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Law Of Infants' Marriages, Robert Kingsley Jun 1956

The Law Of Infants' Marriages, Robert Kingsley

Vanderbilt Law Review

Just as the law requires, for ordinary contracts, that a party thereto must have reached an age sufficient to give him reasonable discretion, so, in connection with the contract of marriage, the law has required that the parties be not too immature. It must be remembered, however, that the word "infant" is not one of fixed meaning: when used with reference to ordinary contracts, and without further qualification, it usually means a person under twenty-one years of age; but in the field of criminal law the dividing line between "infancy" and "adult" responsibility is fixed at a lesser age (14 …


Recent Cases, Law Review Staff Jun 1956

Recent Cases, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Law Review

Constitutional Law--Congressional Investigations --Relevancy of Required Testimony

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Constitutional Law--State Taxation of Interstate Commerce--Sales Taxation of Income from Trans-Shipment of Goods within State

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Criminal Law--Felony Murder Doctrine--Co-Felon Killed by Victim of Crime

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Evidence--Judicial Admissions--Testimony as to Objective Facts

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Federal Tort Claims Act--"Private Individual" Clause--Uniquely Governmental Activity

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Income Taxation--Capital Gains and Losses--Business Purpose for Contracting in Commodity Futures

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Labor Law--Taft-Hartley Act--Discharge of Employees because of Union Membership

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Negligence--High Tension Power Lines--Duty to Warn of Dangerous Condition

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Real Property--Joint Tenancy--Severance of Estate by Murder of Co-Tenant

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Torts--Landowner--Duty to Social Guest

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Wills--Pretermitted Heir Statue--Sole …


People V. Merkouris, Jesse W. Carter May 1956

People V. Merkouris, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

Defendant was due a new trial for his ex-wife's murder because trial court erred by permitting him to withdraw not guilty by reason of insanity plea over counsel's implied objection and because instructions to jury on lying in wait were improper.


People V. Nunn [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter May 1956

People V. Nunn [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

An osteopath's conviction for selling prescriptions for narcotics was proper because the regulatory code's use of the phrase "good faith" was not vague, and the prosecution's attempt to obtain narcotics from the osteopath was not entrapment.


Criminal Law (Survey Of Virginia Case Law - 1955), John C. Baker May 1956

Criminal Law (Survey Of Virginia Case Law - 1955), John C. Baker

William and Mary Review of Virginia Law

No abstract provided.


Bills And Notes - Holders In Due Course - Payment To An Impostor, Thomas S. Erickson May 1956

Bills And Notes - Holders In Due Course - Payment To An Impostor, Thomas S. Erickson

Michigan Law Review

Drawer bank drew a check on the plaintiff bank payable to a depositor on the faith of a withdrawal order purportedly signed by the depositor but actually forged by an impostor. The impostor forged the indorsement and cashed the check at defendant bank which received payment from plaintiff-drawee bank. Two years later, upon the death of the impostor, the fraud was discovered. Plaintiff-drawee bank voluntarily reinstated the drawer bank's account and, standing in the drawer's shoes, it won a judgment to have its account with the defendant reinstated. On appeal, held, reversed. The policy in favor of the free …


Evidence - Admissibility - Extent To Which Juror's Affidavit May Be Used To Impeach Verdict, Herbert R. Brown S.Ed. May 1956

Evidence - Admissibility - Extent To Which Juror's Affidavit May Be Used To Impeach Verdict, Herbert R. Brown S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and made a motion for a new trial on the basis of a juror's affidavit which asserted that the jury had been divided eight to four in favor of life imprisonment over the death sentence, that subsequently several jurors introduced into the deliberations the fact that the defendant had been charged, in another indictment, with assault with intent to kill, that this became a part of the jury's deliberation, and that, as a result, the jury did not recommend life imprisonment and, instead, the death sentence was imposed. On appeal, held …


Punishment: The Reward For Guilt, Arnold T. Lieberman, Dawn B. Girard Apr 1956

Punishment: The Reward For Guilt, Arnold T. Lieberman, Dawn B. Girard

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law - Felony -Murder Rule - Application To The Justifiable Killing Of An Accomplice By The Intended Victim, Frank M. Lacey Apr 1956

Criminal Law - Felony -Murder Rule - Application To The Justifiable Killing Of An Accomplice By The Intended Victim, Frank M. Lacey

Michigan Law Review

The defendant and an armed accomplice held up a grocery store, took money at gun point from the proprietor and fled in opposite directions. The proprietor pursued the accomplice and killed him in the gun battle that ensued. Defendant escaped, but later was apprehended and indicted on a charge of first degree murder. On appeal from a judgment sustaining defendant's demurrer to the evidence, held, reversed and new trial ordered, three judges dissenting. The defendant may be convicted of first degree murder under the Pennsylvania statute which provides that "all murder ... which shall be committed in the perpetration …