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Evidence-Privileged Communications-Husband And Wife Dec 1934

Evidence-Privileged Communications-Husband And Wife

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence - Federal Practice - Competency Of Wife To Testify In Defense Of Husband In Criminal Case Dec 1934

Evidence - Federal Practice - Competency Of Wife To Testify In Defense Of Husband In Criminal Case

Michigan Law Review

The defendant, being tried in a federal district court on an indictment for conspiracy to violate the prohibition law, offered his wife as a witness in his behalf. The district court, following what it concluded to be the established rule of the federal courts, refused to allow her to testify. The circuit court of appeals affirmed this ruling without discussing the point. Certiorari was granted by the Supreme Court, limited to the question as to what law was applicable in determining the competency of the wife. Held, that the federal courts have the power to determine for themselves the …


Practice And Procedure - Direction Of Verdict - Scintilla Rule Nov 1934

Practice And Procedure - Direction Of Verdict - Scintilla Rule

Michigan Law Review

In an action to recover from the defendant gas company damage to the plaintiff's building caused by a gas explosion resulting from a defective pipe, the plaintiff's only evidence to prove the defendant's duty to repair it was that the pipe was used exclusively for the conveyance of the defendant's gas, and that the meters to which the pipe was connected were owned and controlled by the defendant. The trial court, by virtue of the scintilla rule, submitted the case to the jury which rendered a verdict for the plaintiff. Held, the scintilla rule no longer prevails in Ohio, …


Habitual Criminal Act-Constitutionality-Evidence May 1934

Habitual Criminal Act-Constitutionality-Evidence

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Witnesses-Cross Examination-Impeachment May 1934

Witnesses-Cross Examination-Impeachment

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Equity - Admissibility Of Evidence Arising Pendente Lite May 1934

Equity - Admissibility Of Evidence Arising Pendente Lite

Michigan Law Review

In equitable actions "the right to judgment is not limited to the facts as they existed at the commencement of the action, but the relief administered is such as the nature of the case, and the facts as they exist at the close of the litigation, demand." While this quotation may express the general rule regarding the admissibility of evidence arising pendente lite, the difficulties in its application are numerous.


Evidence - Admissibility Of Blood-Group Test May 1934

Evidence - Admissibility Of Blood-Group Test

Michigan Law Review

The old axiom, "blood will tell," has been given a new lease on life by the work of biochemists and hereditists in the last thirty years. At the beginning of the twentieth century a scientist, Karl Landsteiner, working on the means to make blood transfusions safe, discovered that the New Testament saying, the Almighty "hath made of one blood all nations of men," is not true. He found that human blood is divided into four groups, characterized by the possession or non-possession of certain substances in the serum and the corpuscles of the blood. If one puts a little blood …


Evidence-Dying Declarations-Appeal And Error Apr 1934

Evidence-Dying Declarations-Appeal And Error

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Stare Decisis And The Dead Hand Of The Common Law, Trixy M. Peters Apr 1934

Stare Decisis And The Dead Hand Of The Common Law, Trixy M. Peters

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Selected Cases On The Law Of Evidence, Robert T. Donely Apr 1934

Selected Cases On The Law Of Evidence, Robert T. Donely

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Future Interests - Federal Estate Tax - Admissibility Of Evidence Of Barrenness Of Devisee Mar 1934

Future Interests - Federal Estate Tax - Admissibility Of Evidence Of Barrenness Of Devisee

Michigan Law Review

In an inquiry as to the value of an executory bequest to charitable institutions, conditioned on the death of the testator's daughter without issue surviving her, was evidence that at the time of the testator's death she had been rendered incapable of bearing children admissible for the purpose of determining the amount of a deduction from the federal estate tax? Held, that such evidence was admissible. United States v. Provident Trust Co., (U. S. 1934) 54 Sup. Ct. 389.


Contracts - Liability Of The Assignee Of A Land Contract - Reformation By Extrinsic Evidence Feb 1934

Contracts - Liability Of The Assignee Of A Land Contract - Reformation By Extrinsic Evidence

Michigan Law Review

Defendant Campbell assigned a contract to purchase land from the plaintiff to the defendant bank, the evidence being undisputed that the assignment was additional security for an existing indebtedness of Campbell. A printed form containing a promise by the assignee to pay the purchase price was used. The name of the assignee was left blank in order that the name of a prospective purchaser could be filled in if an anticipated sale materialized. In an action to foreclose the land contract the vendor asked for a deficiency judgment against the defendant bank. Held, that the vendor was not entitled …


Searches And Seizures - Reasonableness Of Arrest - Use Of Evidence Secured Through Unreasonable Arrest- Statutory Changes Feb 1934

Searches And Seizures - Reasonableness Of Arrest - Use Of Evidence Secured Through Unreasonable Arrest- Statutory Changes

Michigan Law Review

Police officers patrolling Detroit streets in a radio-equipped police car stopped a taxicab in which defendants Stein and Massie were riding. From the statement of the court, the officers' attention was attracted to the cab "because it was 'driving pretty fast,' about 32 miles per hour." The police car pursued it for a block or more; as it drew abreast of the cab defendant Stein was seen to reach into his pocket as if to take something out and put it behind him. "There was something about the cab, probably aside from its speed, which suggested to officer Sullivan that …


Evidence--Dying Declarations, Eleanor Dawson Jan 1934

Evidence--Dying Declarations, Eleanor Dawson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence--Competency Of Husband And Wife, Albert R. Jones Jan 1934

Evidence--Competency Of Husband And Wife, Albert R. Jones

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure - "Public Enemy" Statutes - Constitutionality Jan 1934

Criminal Law And Procedure - "Public Enemy" Statutes - Constitutionality

Michigan Law Review

Defendants were convicted of the crime of being disorderly persons within the meaning of section 167, Michigan Public Acts, 1931, No. 328, which provided that "any person who engages in an illegal occupation or business . . . shall be deemed a disorderly person. Proof of recent reputation for engaging in an illegal occupation or business shall be prima fade evidence of being engaged in an illegal occupation or business." Police officers testified as to the reputation of the defendants for being bootleggers, stick-up men, robbers, and murderers. Held, that section 167 of the statute is unconstitutional and void …


Growth Of A Dictum, Frank N. Richman Dec 1933

Growth Of A Dictum, Frank N. Richman

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence-The Rule Against Hearsay Dec 1933

Evidence-The Rule Against Hearsay

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence-The Unchastity Of A Female Witness As A Ground For Impeaching Her Veracity Dec 1933

Evidence-The Unchastity Of A Female Witness As A Ground For Impeaching Her Veracity

Michigan Law Review

The underlying question which we propose to consider is this: Has the trait of chastity any such definite correlation with that of veracity that courts are justified in using the former as a criterion of the latter? It must be apparent from even a brief survey of the decisions in this field, and the reasons given therefor, that on this question the courts are swayed far more than ordinarily by their emotional reactions. Buttressed with sentiments that cannot fail to stir the heart of the male in any monogamous community and riveted with references to religion as well as the …


Appeal And Error - Raising Insufficiency Of Defense For First Time On Appeal Jun 1933

Appeal And Error - Raising Insufficiency Of Defense For First Time On Appeal

Michigan Law Review

In defense to plaintiff's action for wages defendant pleaded facts showing an agreement whereby plaintiff was to accept $4,000 in full satisfaction of her claim. The jury found that no such agreement had been made and rendered a verdict for plaintiff in the sum of $7,500. On appeal by defendant the case was sent back for a new trial because of an error in the admission of evidence offered by plaintiff as to the existence of the alleged agreement. Appellee contended that notwithstanding the error the judgment should be affirmed because the agreement pleaded, even if proved, would not constitute …


Evidence-Constitutional Law-Self-Incrimination Applied To Method Of Identification May 1933

Evidence-Constitutional Law-Self-Incrimination Applied To Method Of Identification

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure - Conspiracy - Conviction Of Woman Transported In Violation Of Mann Act May 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure - Conspiracy - Conviction Of Woman Transported In Violation Of Mann Act

Michigan Law Review

Defendants, a man and woman, were indicted and convicted under the conspiracy statute for conspiring together to violate the Mann Act, the only evidence of the woman's cooperation being her mere consent to transportation for immoral purposes. The conviction was affirmed by the court of appeals, and reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction of the woman. Gebardi v. United States, (U.S. 1932), 53 Sup. Ct. 35.


Jury-Evidence-Privilege Of Jury Deliberations Apr 1933

Jury-Evidence-Privilege Of Jury Deliberations

Michigan Law Review

The extent to which affidavits of jurors anent proceedings in the jury room can be used, when not aimed at impeaching their verdict, is a question upon which there is little affirmative authority. The law seems clear since Bushell's case that a juror cannot be punished for his finding of fact; what is more, his vote within the jury room as well as his debates seem to be privileged absolutely on grounds of policy.


Intoxicating Liquor-Transportation-Sufficency Of Evidence Mar 1933

Intoxicating Liquor-Transportation-Sufficency Of Evidence

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure - Evidence - Presumptions Feb 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure - Evidence - Presumptions

Michigan Law Review

The Alien Land Law of California forbids the acquisition of real property for agricultural purposes by aliens ineligible to citizenship; amendment 9b provides that proof of the acquisition of land by the defendant and of his being a member of a race ineligible to United States citizenship raises the presumption of ineligibility to citizenship against the defendant, and the burden is on him to show citizenship or eligibility thereto. Defendants, an American and a Japanese, were indicted for conspiracy to violate the act. No evidence as to the birthplace of the Japanese was adduced by either side, and both were …


Some Statutory Modifications Of The Hearsay Rule, Trixy M. Peters Feb 1933

Some Statutory Modifications Of The Hearsay Rule, Trixy M. Peters

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure - Searches And Seizures - Sufficiency Of Description In Warrant Feb 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure - Searches And Seizures - Sufficiency Of Description In Warrant

Michigan Law Review

Prosecuted for unlawful possession of liquor, defendant moved to suppress the evidence on the ground that the following description in the warrant, under authority of which the liquor was seized, fails sufficiently to describe the premises searched: " . . . on the northwest cor. in Block 'A,' Robinson Addition in the City or Town of Elk City (Cor. 9th and Oliver Sts. Beckham County, State of Oklahoma)." Block A was originally not subdivided and was without streets. It was later subdivided and 9th and Oliver Streets crossed near the center of the block. The house searched was on Lot …


The Value Of Opinion Evidence In Will Contests Whether Delivered By Law Or Expert Witnesses, Alfred Selligman Jan 1933

The Value Of Opinion Evidence In Will Contests Whether Delivered By Law Or Expert Witnesses, Alfred Selligman

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence Obtained By Illegal Search And Seizure, Martin R. Glenn Jan 1933

Evidence Obtained By Illegal Search And Seizure, Martin R. Glenn

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Evidence-Inferance Upon Inferance Dec 1932

Evidence-Inferance Upon Inferance

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.