This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...bill. ILLICIT DISTILLING A Georgia moonshiner was convicted in Federal court. The judge lectured him on his long criminal record, but assured him that, notwithstanding this, the court felt no anger toward him, --only pity; and closed by giving him a sentence of six years in prison. The moonshiner stolidly listened, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...bill. ILLICIT DISTILLING A Georgia moonshiner was convicted in Federal court. The judge lectured him on his long criminal record, but assured him that, notwithstanding this, the court felt no anger toward him, --only pity; and closed by giving him a sentence of six years in prison. The moonshiner stolidly listened, first to the kindly words, and then to the severe sentence, but said nothing until he was outside the courtroom. Then, shifting his tobacco in his mouth, he said to the marshal: "Well, I shua am glad he wa'n't mad at me." In the mountainous district of Missouri, a tall, gaunt specimen of the mountaineer, whose Christian name was Joshua, was recently arraigned in the criminal branch of the Federal Court, on a charge of illicit distilling. During the proceedings the judge, in a friendly manner, turned to the defendant and remarked: "Your name is Joshua, is if? I suppose you are the man who commanded the sun to stand still." "No," was the quick response of the mountaineer, "I am the man who is charged with making the moonshine still." ILLUSTRATION In Judge Pollard's court in St. Louis Mrs. Blanche sought the law on her husband for smiting her on the nose. "How did he strike you?" asked the judge. "Show me." "All right," replied the lady, and forthwith landed a terrific slap on Judge Pollard 's features. ' Enough, ' said the judge, and fined the husband fifty dollars. INCOMPETENCY The case concerned a will, and an Irishman was a witness. "Was the deceased," asked the lawyer, "in the habit of talking to himself when he was alone?" "I don't know," was the reply. "Come, come, you don't know, and yet you pretend that you were intimately acquainted with ...
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Very good. Green cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has mild rubbing and soil to boards and spine, wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's plate to front pastedown, front endpapers off-set, text clean and unmarked.
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Very Good in No jacket. Buffalo, New York: William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1993. Originally published in 1914, this is the first revised edition [1993] with a new introduction and index by J. Wesley Miller, and has a personalized inscription signed by Miller on the verso of the title page. This collection of legal humor includes anecdotes and short commentary by and for use by lawyers, basically "clean" humor but with some stories told in dialect which some may deem offensive today. Bright green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 437 pages, no dustjacket, most likely as issued. Near fine condition with only some very minimal rubbing to the corners, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages free from other names or markings. Inscribed by The Editor. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
