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...courts. Its purpose was to get around the "cumbersome procedure of indictment and trial by jury" for petty offenders whose cases clog the courts. The Constitution calls for indictments and jury trials for "infamous crimes." The Supreme Court has held that offenses punishable by less than a year in jail are not "infamous crimes," require no indictment or jury trial. The Jones Law making all liquor violations felonies ("infamous crimes") though explicitly recognizing "casual or slight violations...
...District Attorneys would have primary discretion to prosecute a liquor defendant as a petty offender before a U. S. commissioner where punishment would be limited to a $500 fine or six months in jail, or to seek an indictment and try the case before judge and jury where punishment might be the limit of the Jones Law (five years in penitentiary, $10,000 fine...
...petitioners' heels came correspondents to question Ambassador Guggenheim. What was he going to do? Would he leave the editors to rot in jail on a trumped up charge of sedition? Would he act with all the power and majesty of the President whose personal representative...
Ensued a wrangle of three hours duration which ended only when the owner of the bakery patronized by His Holiness rushed down to the jail where his deliveryman was detained, unlocked and unsealed the box, exclaiming: "You see it is only bread...
...Bulgaria, the Prince of Monaco, the infante Fernando of Spain representing his brother-in-law King Alfonso XIII of Spain, and the Duke of York representing the King-Emperor George V. In token of great gladness King Vittorio Emanuele ordered 6,000 Italian criminals pardoned and let out of jail; gave 10,000 pairs of shoes to the poor; distributed lesser alms to 400,000. All objects deposited with Roman pawn shops between Jan. 1 and Feb. 15 last year and unredeemed to date were returned free to their owners as act of grace of Prince Ludovico Boncompagni, Governor...