Word: intention
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as he delivered his charge to the jury, Judge Hincks noted that the defendants were "not compelled to prove their innocence." It was up to the Government to prove them guilty, and the Government had the toughest of all legal points to make-"criminal intent." It also had to prove that the picketing allegedly interfered with was in fact "peaceful." Even the Court was skeptical of Mr. Rand's announced intention of using the millwrights to dismantle his Middletown mill, observing, however: "If bluffing were illegal, I am afraid that there would be a considerable reduction...
...spotting gentlemen they have seen the week before either in the police line-up or in various questionable albums. The conditions that prevail in the mob that surges around the goal posts are practically ideal for accustomed law-breakers: a great mass of people crashing against each other all intent upon some noble objective and unmindful of skillful snatch artists examining the contents of their pockets...
...hold back its tears. They were first sobs, blown against the cheek by the wind. Small, individual parts of the mass buttoned coats, donned cellophane slickers, threw newspapers over their heads. The sobs became hysterical weeping, and water slashed upon the stands and upon twenty-two men playing like intent children with a pigskin...
...have an Irishman's word for it that if they had X-rayed my brain when my foot struck the ball, they would have found no deliberate intent...
...civil action. "Since they have chosen to institute a criminal case," stormed Wild Bill, "they must be bound by the rules that our Constitution has prescribed in order to protect the defendants when they are accused of crime. Now, an essential element in this case is the question of intent: did these men have a guilty intent in what they did? And it isn't sufficient alone ... to show that there was written approval, or statutory approval. There is the question of instigation; there is the question of inducement; there is the question of approval...