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Prosecution Appeals In West Virginia, Frank Edward Horack Jr. Jan 1934

Prosecution Appeals In West Virginia, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure - Indictments - Resubmission To Grand Jury Jun 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure - Indictments - Resubmission To Grand Jury

Michigan Law Review

The defendant was charged with criminal homicide but the grand jury refused to find a true bill. Two more bills were sent to the grand jury, identical in terms with the first. The third was returned a true bill. Defendant claimed error in overruling his motion to quash the indictment. Held, the motion to quash the indictment should have been granted as the subsequent bills were improper. State v. Ledford, (N. C. 1932) 166 S. E. 917.


Equity- Contempts - Purgation By Sworn Answer - Doctrine Of Variance Jun 1933

Equity- Contempts - Purgation By Sworn Answer - Doctrine Of Variance

Michigan Law Review

At the suit of X Traction Company defendants had been enjoined from operating busses along streets upon which plaintiff operated its cars. The latter .filed an information in the name of the State charging the defendants with wilful violation of the restraining order, and moved for an attachment for contempt, and for the infliction of "such penalties as are or may be necessary to compel observance." Defendants filed motions to discharge, and also answers for the purpose of purging themselves of the alleged contempt. Upon trial, at which evidence was received, the court found defendants guilty, and levied fines. Defendants …


Criminal Law And Procedure-Instructions To Jury May 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure-Instructions To Jury

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was indicted for unlawful possession of liquor. He offered no substantial defense, and the trial judge, in charging the jury, said that while they were sole judges of the facts, "that on the undisputed evidence this man is guilty, and it is your duty to convict him." On appeal, the circuit court held that the charge, while drastic, was not error, as there were no controverted facts, and hence nothing for the jury to do but convict. United States v. Notto, (C. C. A. 2d, 1932) 61 F. (2d) 781.


Procedure Under The Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, Bernard C. Gavit Apr 1933

Procedure Under The Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act, Bernard C. Gavit

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law And Procedure-Jury As Judge Of Law In Criminal Cases Apr 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure-Jury As Judge Of Law In Criminal Cases

Michigan Law Review

The defendant was indicted under a criminal statute making it a misdemeanor for agents and officers to transact business for any foreign corporation which had failed to comply with certain statutory requirements for conducting business in Maryland. The trial judge instructed the jury that if they believed the evidence to he true he was of the opinion that the defendant was an agent within the meaning of the statute. He cautioned them, however, that they were by article 15, sec. 5, of the constitution made judges of the law as well as fact and that his opinion as to the …


Criminal Law And Procedure - Perjury As Contempt-Statutory Construction Apr 1933

Criminal Law And Procedure - Perjury As Contempt-Statutory Construction

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was summoned for jury duty in a celebrated mail fraud case. On voir dire examination she deliberately concealed the fact that at one time the defendants had been her employers, and falsely stated that her mind was free from bias. Accepted as a juror, she attempted to discredit the government's case to fellow jurors, refused to listen to their arguments, and after one week's deliberation in the jury room continued to cast the only vote for acquittal. Held, that this conduct was a contempt of court in that it was an obstruction of the processes of justice. Clark …


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.


Criminal Law And Procedure - Preliminary Examination Dec 1932

Criminal Law And Procedure - Preliminary Examination

Michigan Law Review

A statute provided: "No information shall be filed against any person for any offense until such person shall have had a preliminary examination therefor as provided by law before a magistrate, unless such person shall waive such right. . . . " The defendant was complained against before a magistrate on a charge of grand. larceny. The magistrate refused to hold the accused on such charge but held him to answer on a charge of receiving stolen property. The prosecutor filed an information charging grand larceny. The defendant moved to quash the information on the ground that he had had …


Equity-Injunction Against Criminal Proceedings Nov 1932

Equity-Injunction Against Criminal Proceedings

Michigan Law Review

The possessor of certain slot machines filed a bill in equity to enjoin police interference with their operation. Although the machines, as operated, sold mints for each coin played and occasionally vended tokens which allegedly had no exchange value, they could be changed, by the removal of a pin, into an actual gambling device. The court held in Chambers v. Bachtel, that the bill should be dismissed.


Comment Upon Failure Of Accused To Testify, Robert P. Reeder Nov 1932

Comment Upon Failure Of Accused To Testify, Robert P. Reeder

Michigan Law Review

Last year the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association adopted resolutions declaring that when the defendant in a criminal trial does not testify the prosecution should be permitted to comment upon that fact. They urged the overthrow of a rule of law which have prevailed in the federal courts ever since accused persons were first permitted to give testimony, over fifty years ago, and which has governed the courts of forty-two out of the forty-eight states. The discussions which preceded the adoption of the resolutions have been published. In them the advocates of the change do not show …


English Criminal Prosecutions, John B. Waite Apr 1932

English Criminal Prosecutions, John B. Waite

Michigan Law Review

A review of CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN ENGLAND, A STUDY IN LAW ADMINISTRATION. By Pendleton Howard.


State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock Nov 1931

State Juvenile Court Procedure For Federal Juvenile Offenders, Howard E. Wahrenbrock

Michigan Law Review

The Report on the Child Offender in the Federal System of Justice recommends the enactment of federal legislation which will provide means of utilizing the machinery of existing state juvenile courts where federal laws have been violated by children. The details of such legislation are not suggested in the Report. The legal questions to be encountered in the framing of such legislation call for careful consideration if full advantage is to be taken of the knowledge which the study made for the Commission furnishes. Some of the questions of more general interest will be taken as the subject of this …


Report On Criminal Procedure, Rollin M. Perkins Nov 1931

Report On Criminal Procedure, Rollin M. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

During the period of trial by battle such a proceeding served, in addition to its nominal purpose, something of the function which is now served by a World's Series ball game. From that time to this, the trial has been the spectacular aspect of the enforcement of justice in general and of criminal justice in particular. The result has been relative overemphasis upon criminal procedure in the strictly technical sense, and a corresponding neglect of the broader problems of administration. If, for instance, a conviction under a statute making it grand larceny to steal "a cow or animal of the …


Reform Of Legal Procedure: Rulemaking Power For Courts, Sveinbjorn Johnson Mar 1931

Reform Of Legal Procedure: Rulemaking Power For Courts, Sveinbjorn Johnson

Indiana Law Journal

An address delivered to the Indiana State Bar Association at Indianapolis, Thursday, December 18, 1930.


Relation Between Separate Instructions To The Jury, Leo Carlin Jun 1930

Relation Between Separate Instructions To The Jury, Leo Carlin

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Should The Jury System Be Abolished, T. W. A. Apr 1929

Should The Jury System Be Abolished, T. W. A.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contempt--Evasion Of Criminal Process As Contempt Of Court, T. W. Arnold Feb 1928

Contempt--Evasion Of Criminal Process As Contempt Of Court, T. W. Arnold

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Waiver Of Trial By Jury In Criminal Cases, S. Chesterfield Oppenheim May 1927

Waiver Of Trial By Jury In Criminal Cases, S. Chesterfield Oppenheim

Michigan Law Review

Waiver of jury trial in criminal cases generally is a highly practical issue at the present time both from the standpoint of the public and of the accused. The belief is common that the element of delay is one of the primary causes of the general disrespect attaching to the courts of criminal juridiction. It is said that an overzealousness in shielding the citizen against oppression and injustice has resulted in shifting to the background expedients designed to simplify and give momentum to the disposition of criminal cases.


Elimination Of General Verdicts And Instructions To Juries, Thomas H. S. Curd Apr 1927

Elimination Of General Verdicts And Instructions To Juries, Thomas H. S. Curd

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Special Interrogatories To The Jury--Their Nature And Purpose--Court's Discretion Relative To Their Submission, G. D. H. Feb 1927

Special Interrogatories To The Jury--Their Nature And Purpose--Court's Discretion Relative To Their Submission, G. D. H.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Trial Practice--Duty Of The Court To Instruct The Jury In The Absence Of A Request For Instructions Jan 1925

Trial Practice--Duty Of The Court To Instruct The Jury In The Absence Of A Request For Instructions

Michigan Law Review

A series of cases recently decided in Georgia brings to mind the interesting question as to whether the court is bound to give instructions upon the law of the case in the absence of a specific request therefor. See Slocumb v. State, 157 Ga. 131; Fort v. State, 121 S. E. 128; Hatfield v. State, 121 S. E. 129; Walker v. State, 121 S. E. 130; Bul­lard v. State, 121 S. E. 130; Coney v. State, 121 S. E. 132, and Riggs v. State (1924) 121 S. E. 142. In none of these cases …


Injunction Against Execution Of Criminal Judgment Nov 1924

Injunction Against Execution Of Criminal Judgment

Michigan Law Review

Sometime in 1921 or 1922 one Ullah Mohammed, an Afghan, unable to speak or understand English, was convicted of murder in the first degree in the Sonoma county court, of California. The evidence showed that he entered deceased's bed-room, fired a shot-gun at him, clubbed him over the head, and then cut his throat with a razor. An appeal was taken on the instructions as to self-defense and was summarily overruled. People v. Mohammed, 189 Cal. 429. Later a bill was filed in the superior court of San Francisco for an injunction to prevent Mohammed's execution. It was alleged …


Constructive Contempt Of Court Feb 1924

Constructive Contempt Of Court

Michigan Law Review

The recent case of Craig v. Hecht (1923) 44 Sup. Ct. Rep. 103, aroused an extraordinary amount of interest among laymen, and involved some legal questions of importance to lawyers; but perhaps its most significant result was the opportunity it afforded the legal profession to observe the popular attitude of hostility toward certain phases of judicial administration which lawyers are habitually inclined to overlook.


Abolish The Jury, J. C. Mcwhorter Jan 1923

Abolish The Jury, J. C. Mcwhorter

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Proposed Procedural Reform, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1922

Proposed Procedural Reform, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


A Plan For The Reform Of Legal Procedure, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1920

A Plan For The Reform Of Legal Procedure, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Some Needed Reforms In The Methods Of Selecting Juries, Willis B. Perkins Mar 1915

Some Needed Reforms In The Methods Of Selecting Juries, Willis B. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

For the purpose of comparison and in a measure as a justification for some of the conclusions reached, I will premise what I have to say by a general review of the practice of securing juries in England.


Proposed Remedies In Court Procedure, Willis B. Perkins Mar 1914

Proposed Remedies In Court Procedure, Willis B. Perkins

Michigan Law Review

It is the judgment of the writer that the chief function of the legislature is to declare substantive rights. Court procedure being but the machinery by which substantive rights are determined, the responsibility for the effectiveness of that machinery should rest alone upon the courts. Unnecessary prolixity and confusion too frequently result from the present two-fold source of procedural law.


Les Codes Marocains, Émile Larcher Jan 1914

Les Codes Marocains, Émile Larcher

Civil Codes (1800-1923)

Annotés des dahirs et arrêtés pris pour la exécution.