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...arrested immediately. The charge was vague, but obviously the thing to do with a man who said he was Christ was to take him in custody. It was indicated by every precedent. To the policemen who apprehended him, the judge before whom he was arraigned, the thieves in the jail where he was lodged, Vespaciano admitted, indeed flagrantly proclaimed that he was the Christ, returned to earth as he had promised. Clearly, then, he was guilty of whatever it was that he was guilty of. Last week he went to prison...
Andrew Volstead declared that, although it is not generally known, there is a penalty of 90 days in jail for buying illicit liquor, and two years for a second offense...
...fall with him. Amid the antiFascist revolution which would spring up, anything might happen. Even as these thoughts coursed through the mind of onetime Socialist Deputy Tito Zaniboni, something happened with a vengeance. Fascist police burst in his door, collared him, took his rifle away, trundled him off to jail...
Other Cases Decided. Terence Druggan, convicted beer-legger of Chicago, appealed for a writ of habeas corpus to escape jail on the grounds that the Volstead Act was illegal because it had passed before the 18th Amendment was ratified. Justice Holmes read the Court's opinion sustaining the Act, declaring: "No reason has been suggested why the Constitution may not have given Congress a present power to enact laws intended to carry out constitutional provisions for the future when the time comes for them to take effect...
...because of her membership in the Communist Labor Party. She was sentenced to from one to 14 years in prison. For five years her friends have supplied money to carry on her legal battle. Last week the Supreme Court refused to hear her appeal. Now she must go to jail unless the Governor pardons her. But he cannot do so unless she signs an appeal for pardon, and she has announced that she will not do so, since it would imply a confession of guilt-which she will not admit...