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Criminal Law-A Study Of Statutory Blackmail And Extortion In The Several States, Alice Kramer Griep Dec 1945

Criminal Law-A Study Of Statutory Blackmail And Extortion In The Several States, Alice Kramer Griep

Michigan Law Review

In attempting to define the crime of extortion or blackmail, it must be pointed out at the outset that there is a technical crime known as extortion, which stems from the common law, and there is another statutory crime which may be called extortion or blackmail, this latter crime being what the lawyer and laymen usually refer to by the term blackmail. Extortion at common law was the unlawful taking by an officer, by color of his office, of any money or thing of value that was not due him, or more than was due, or before it was due. …


The Problem Of Similar Offenses Oct 1945

The Problem Of Similar Offenses

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Criminal Law


Self Incrimination Jul 1945

Self Incrimination

Indiana Law Journal

Notes and Comments: Criminal Law


Criminal Law And Procedure-Whether Reversible Error For Judge To Give Instructions Relating To Credibility Of Defendant Witness, Edwin Boos Feb 1945

Criminal Law And Procedure-Whether Reversible Error For Judge To Give Instructions Relating To Credibility Of Defendant Witness, Edwin Boos

Michigan Law Review

Appellant who was convicted of committing a criminal abortion, moved for a new trial alleging as error an instruction given by the judge to the jury. The instruction singled out the defendant from the other witnesses, pointing to his high degree of interest in a verdict of not guilty, as reason for scrutinizing his testimony. The judge also warned the jury that it need not accept blindly the testimony of the accused. Held, reversed, new trial ordered. Swanson v. State, (Ind. 1944) 52 N.E. (2d) 616.


Unusual Suicide, An , Charles M. Wilson Jan 1945

Unusual Suicide, An , Charles M. Wilson

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


American Journal Of Police Science: Book Reviews Jan 1945

American Journal Of Police Science: Book Reviews

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


American Journal Of Police Science: Legal Abstracts And Notes Jan 1945

American Journal Of Police Science: Legal Abstracts And Notes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Court Procedure And Subsequent Treatment In Case Of The Criminal Insane, Mary Goshorn Williams, Mabel A. Elliott Jan 1945

Court Procedure And Subsequent Treatment In Case Of The Criminal Insane, Mary Goshorn Williams, Mabel A. Elliott

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Controlling War-Time Juvenile Delinquency, Milton Lessner Jan 1945

Controlling War-Time Juvenile Delinquency, Milton Lessner

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 1945

Book Reviews

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Questions And Answers Jan 1945

Questions And Answers

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Prison Trade School--Students And Training, A , Elmer R. Akers Jan 1945

Prison Trade School--Students And Training, A , Elmer R. Akers

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Current Notes Jan 1945

Current Notes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Escape Tactics Of German War Prisoners, William E. Kirwan Jan 1945

Escape Tactics Of German War Prisoners, William E. Kirwan

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Perennial Jail Problem, Louis N. Robinson Jan 1945

Perennial Jail Problem, Louis N. Robinson

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Nazi Penal System--I, Frederick Hoefer Jan 1945

The Nazi Penal System--I, Frederick Hoefer

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Heredity And Crime, Arthur N. Foxe Jan 1945

Heredity And Crime, Arthur N. Foxe

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Post War Influence Upon Criminal Investigation, Don L. Kooken Jan 1945

Post War Influence Upon Criminal Investigation, Don L. Kooken

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Psychological Interpretation Of Waywardness, A , Curt Bondy Jan 1945

Psychological Interpretation Of Waywardness, A , Curt Bondy

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Nazi Penal System--Ii, The , Frederick Hoefer Jan 1945

Nazi Penal System--Ii, The , Frederick Hoefer

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


A Commentary On The System Of Permanently Retaining Criminal Records, Milton S. Marke Jan 1945

A Commentary On The System Of Permanently Retaining Criminal Records, Milton S. Marke

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 1945

Book Reviews

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Cooperative Enforcement: The Lansing Plan , M. Waldorf Pletcher Jan 1945

Cooperative Enforcement: The Lansing Plan , M. Waldorf Pletcher

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Delinquency Of The American Indian, The , Hans Von Hentig Jan 1945

Delinquency Of The American Indian, The , Hans Von Hentig

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


War Trials, W. Eliasberg Jan 1945

War Trials, W. Eliasberg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Glueck Method Of Parole Prediction Applied To 1,861 Cases Of Burglars, Michael Hakeem Jan 1945

Glueck Method Of Parole Prediction Applied To 1,861 Cases Of Burglars, Michael Hakeem

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Meet The Gang , Bernard Rosenberg Jan 1945

Meet The Gang , Bernard Rosenberg

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Jan 1945

Book Reviews

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Current Notes Jan 1945

Current Notes

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


The Police Federation In Britain, R. E. Harris Jan 1945

The Police Federation In Britain, R. E. Harris

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.