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Double Jeopardy. In the case of Doras Herbert et al. v. the State of Louisiana, the Supreme Court ruled that a person who violates the prohibition laws can be prosecuted in both State and Federal courts for the same offense without violating the clause of the Fifth Amendment-forbidding double jeopardy. This clause says: "Nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life of limb." Justice Willis Van Devanter's opinion held that a person who manufactures intoxicating liquor "commits two distinct offenses, one against the United States...
...Convened for the sixth time to extend for the sixth time the Emergency Powers Act made necessary by the coal strike (TIME, May 10 et...
Before the Chicago Association of Commerce, Silas Hardy Strawn, for more than a year able U. S. representative at Peking on the abortive Chinese Customs and Extraterritoriality Conferences (TIME, Aug. 31, Nov. 2, 1925, et seq.) sketched last week the condition of China as he left it a month ago (TIME, Oct. 4). Mr. Strawn, puissant Chicago lawyer, Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co., Director of the Wahl ("Eversharp Pencil") Co., said...
...movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central China (TIME, Oct. 4 et...
...further nefarious use to which the anti-Yaqui campaign will undoubtedly be put lies in the use of the soldiers thus mobilized to enforce the anti-religious policy of the Calles Administration, (TIME, Oct. 4 et ante...