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  City of Pasadena V. Charleville 215 Cal. 384, Supreme Court of California, Docket Number L.A. 13311 (4/18/1932) In Bank. Petition by the City of Pasadena against J. W. Charleville, City Manager of the City of Pasadena, for a writ of mandate. Writ denied. 1932 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Clegg V. Johnson 164 Miss. 198, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B, Docket Number 30177 (10/24/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Bolivar County; Wm. A. Alcorn, Jr., Judge. Action by Emma Johnson against R. L. Clegg, doing business as the United Benevolent Burial Association of Mississippi. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1932 Cases    
Charles P. Howland, New Haven, Conn. Convicting the Innocent 45 Harvard Law Review 1430 (June, 1932) There was a time when the protection of the innocent from wrongful conviction of crime was an important social concern. It could not be too often asserted that there can be no civilization, no ordered life, no real progress, when the legal right of even the most obnoxious, the most unpopular citizen is not upheld against the multitude by the... 1932 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  County Democratic Executive Committee in and for Bexar County V. Booker 53 S.W.2d 123, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio, Docket Number 9038 (7/28/1932) Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; S. G. Tayloe, Judge. Suit by C. A. Booker against The County Democratic Executive Committee in and for Bexar County and others. From an adverse judgment, defendants appeal. Judgment reversed, and suit dismissed. See, also, 52 S.W.(2d) 908. COBBS, J., dissenting. 1932 Cases    
  Crye V. Pearce 175 Ga. 85, Supreme Court of Georgia, Docket Number 8723 (7/12/1932) Error from Superior Court, Harris County; C. J. Perryman, Judge. Suit by E. L. Pearce and others against W. G. Crye and others. To review the judgment, defendants bring error. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Davis V. State 53 Okla.Crim. 411, Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Docket Number A-8340 (6/18/1932) Appeal from District Court, Blaine County; E. L. Mitchell, Judge. Charles Fillmore Davis was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed, and date set for execution of sentence. 1932 Cases    
  Du Ross V. Trainor 122 Cal.App. 732, District Court of Appeal, Third District, California, Docket Number CIV. 4550 (4/20/1932) Appeal from Superior Court, Los Angeles County; C. P. Vicini, Judge. Action by Neil Du Ross and others against Sally Trainor. From an adverse judgment, defendant appeals. Reversed. 1932 Cases    
  Elliott V. Gardner 203 N.C. 749, Supreme Court of North Carolina, Docket Number 272-A (12/21/1932) Appeal from Superior Court, Wake County; Schenck, Judge. Mandamus proceeding by Thomas W. Elliott and others against O. Max Gardner, Governor, and others, constituting the State Board of Equalization. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Goodwell V. State 120 Tex.Crim. 506, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 14887 (5/11/1932) Appeal from District Court, Hardin County; S. A. McCall, Judge. Lenelle Goodwell was convicted of rape by force, and he appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1932 Cases    
Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., Harvard University Government by Judiciary 45 Harvard Law Review 1271 (5/8/1932) The history of the Supreme Court has so often been dealt with from the Federalist point of view that a general challenge to that approach has long been desirable. Mr. Boudin New York lawyer, expounder of the Marxian philosophy, and sometime Socialist candidate for office has made that attempt in these formidable volumes. While it is not so... 1932 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Grand Temple and Tabernacle in State of Texas of Knights and Daughters of Tabor of International Order of Twelve V. Independent Order of Knights and Daughters of Tabor of America 44 S.W.2d 973, Commission of Appeals of Texas, Section B, Docket Number 1269-5788 (1/6/1932) Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Sixth Supreme Judicial District. Suit by the Grand Temple and Tabernacle in the State of Texas of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor of the International Order of Twelve and others against the Independent Order of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor of America and others. Judgment for defendants was affirmed by the... 1932 Cases    
  Hiller V. State 11 Smith (TN) 388, Supreme Court of Tennessee (6/4/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Obion County; R. A. Elkins, Judge. Aby Hiller was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and he appeals. Reversed. 1932 Cases    
  Hogan V. Fausz 243 Ky. 514, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (4/26/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Kenton County, Common Law and Equity Division. Proceeding by Herman Fausz against Emmett Hogan. From judgment of circuit court sustaining action of the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Covington in removing Emmett Hogan from the police department of the city, Emmett Hogan appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  In re Diver's Estate 214 Iowa 497, Supreme Court of Iowa, Docket Number 41178 (2/9/1932) Appeal from District Court, Lee County; Dan W. Hamilton, Judge. Action in probate, wherein the contestants, heirs at law of James B. Diver, deceased, filed objections to the probate of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of said Diver, on account of alleged mental incapacity and also undue influence on the part of Amelia B.... 1932 Cases    
  In re Pratt's Estate 160 Okla. 256, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 20868 (4/12/1932) Appeal from District Court, Carter County; John W. Ogden, Judge. Proceedings in the matter of the estate of Martha Pratt, Sr., deceased. From a judgment of the district court, on appeal from the county court, determining heirship adversely to Martha Pratt, Jr., and affirming an order removing Eugene Wright as administratrix, and appointing Louis... 1932 Cases    
  Johnson V. State 121 Tex.Crim. 392, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 15168 (5/4/1932) Commissioners' Decision. Appeal from District Court, Wichita County; Allan D. Montgomery, Judge. Richard Johnson was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Lee V. State 163 Md. 56, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Docket Number 64 (7/5/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Baltimore County; T. Scott Offutt, Frank I. Duncan, and C. Gus Grason, Judges. Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Reversed, and new trial ordered. 1932 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Naihaus V. Louisiana Weekly Pub. Co. 176 La. 240, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 31675 (11/28/1932) Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Hugh C. Cage, Judge. Action by Carl Naihaus against the Louisiana Weekly Publishing Company, Inc. Judgment for plaintiff and defendant appeals, and plaintiff, answering the appeal, prays for the amount demanded in his complaint. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Newman V. O.k. Industrial Life Ins. Co. 142 So. 791, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit, Docket Number 4339 (6/29/1932) Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; E. P. Mills, Judge. Action by H. H. Newman against the O. K. Industrial Life Insurance Company. From the judgment, plaintiff appeals. Judgment amended, and, as so amended, affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Nixon V. Condon 286 U.S. 73, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 265 (5/2/1932) Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS, Mr. Justice VAN DEVANTER, Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND, and Mr. Justice BUTLER, dissenting. On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Action by L. A. Nixon against James Condon and another. A judgment of dismissal (34 F.(2d) 464) was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals (49 F.... 1932 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Patterson V. State 224 Ala. 531, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 320 (3/24/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; A. E. Hawkins, Judge. Haywood Patterson was convicted of rape, and he appeals. Affirmed. ANDERSON, C. J., dissenting. 1932 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Pitts V. State 53 Okla.Crim. 165, Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma, Docket Number A-8206 (1/23/1932) Appeal from District Court, Oklahoma County; Gaylord R. Wilcox, Judge. Ollie Pitts was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Plumley V. Stewart 165 S.C. 316, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 13382 (4/11/1932) Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Greenville County; M. F. Ansel, Judge. Separate actions by A. D. Plumley against T. P. Stewart and T. E. Morrow and against T. E. Morrow and J. B. Gosnell, which were tried together. From judgments rendered, plaintiff appeals, and defendants appeal from order settling the case for appeal. Reversed and... 1932 Cases    
  Powell V. State 224 Ala. 540, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 322 (3/24/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; A. E. Hawkins, Judge. Ozie Powell, Willie Roberson, Andy Wright, Olen Montgomery, and Eugene Williams were convicted of rape, and they appeal. Affirmed as to Powell, Roberson, Wright, and Montgomery; and reversed and remanded, with directions, as to Williams. ANDERSON, C. J., dissenting. 1932 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Prewitt V. Wilson 242 Ky. 231, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (2/2/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Whitley County. Election contest by Willis Prewitt against William Wilson. From a judgment dismissing the petition, the contestant appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Pruitt V. State 163 Miss. 47, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 29750 (3/7/1932) In Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court, Lauderdale County; J. D. Fatheree, Judge. Ervin Pruitt was convicted of murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. ANDERSON and GRIFFITH, JJ., dissenting. 1932 Cases    
  Qualls V. City of Memphis 15 Tenn.App. 575, Court of Appeals of Tennessee (7/13/1932) This suit arose by reason of a denial by the Building Commissioner of the City of Memphis to issue to S. W. Qualls a permit to operate a funeral home at 481 Vance Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee. The particular location under the zoning laws and ordinances of the city of Memphis is designated as Commercial C. From the action of the... 1932 Cases    
  Rankin V. Dunn 243 Ky. 784, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (5/13/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Fayette County. Action by Sidney Mays Dunn against Pearl Rankin and others. From judgment for plaintiff, named defendant appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  Security Stove & Mfg. Co. V. American Ry. Express Co. 227 Mo.App. 175, Kansas City Court of Appeals, Missouri, Docket Number 17560 (5/23/1932) Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; Ralph S. Latshaw, Judge. Action by the Security Stove & Manufacturing Company against the American Railway Express Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed. 1932 Cases    
  State Teachers' College V. Morris 165 Miss. 758, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Docket Number 29934 (11/14/1932) In Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court, Forrest County; W. J. Pack, Judge. Action by the State Teachers' College against F. M. Morris. From a judgment dismissing the suit, plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1932 Cases    
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