Download or read book Life of David S Terry written by Alexander E. Wagstaff and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David S Terry of Californi written by Albert Russell Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography Of One Of The First Supreme Court Judges Of California, And One Of The Most Controversial Figures In Early California History.
Download or read book Life of David S Terry written by Alexander E. Wagstaff and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of David S Terry Presenting an Authentic Impartial and Vivid History of His Eventful Life and Tragic Death written by Alexander E. Wagstaff and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER L. David Neagle--Taken Under Writ Of Habeas Corpus To San Francisco--The Questionable Transfer Done Under Cover Of Darkness And In Secrecy--Released Without A Trial--An Ingenious Document. The Federal authorities having assumed the responsibility of the death of Judge Terry, his slayer was to be taken care of by that arm of the service, and means must be provided to release him from his imprisonment at Stockton. While there was no danger of any undue or violent proceedings against him, or any thought of his life being in danger, the fact that he had committed an act which was a crime against the laws of the State of California, and that he was amenable to its courts of justice, must be evaded in order to consummate the travesty on justice and set the prisoner free. He was, for the time being, the servant of the United States and the paid agent of the department of justice, and although that high tribunal should be held above suspicion in its every act, there was something which caused it to concoct and execute a scheme, worthy only of the actions of the celebrated "Council of Ten," in the dispensation of justice. When the highest judicial tribunal in the land has to resort to scheming, and to carry out its ( 454 ) schemes in secret and the darkness which protects the burglar and highwayman, the natural and only correct inference is that justice must be thwarted and crime covered up. The spectacle of a special train under cover of darkness and under orders from the United States Circuit Court, stealing its way across the plains, in an enlightened, free, and sovereign State, to take from a county prison a man who, although he had killed his fellow-man, was in no danger of punishment, has all the evidences of a desire to usurp the...
Download or read book By Any Means Necessary written by James Emmett Thompson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's Fourth Chief Justice, David S. Terry, was a violent man. Elected in 1855, he came down from the bench the following year to stab a San Francisco vigilante policeman in the neck with his fearsome Bowie knife. Convicted of murder by a vigilante jury, only Terry's judicial robes saved him from the hangman's noose. In 1859, he resigned from the bench to fight a deadly duel with United States Senator David C. Broderick. By 1863, Terry had gone south to accept a colonel's commission in the Confederate Army. Twenty years later, he joined forces with a dishonest lawyer named George Washington Tyler to represent the alluring Sarah Althea Hill in a sensational court case that exposed the sexual escapades of San Francisco's rich and famous. Basing her case on a scrap of paper that she claimed was a contract for a secret marriage, Miss Hill sought to claim a share of the fortune of San Francisco's richest man, old Senator William Sharon of Nevada. Sharon swore that her marriage contract was a forgery. Terry lost his heart to his seductive young client and married her, despite the difference in their ages and her checkered past. When Terry's old court colleague, United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field ruled against her, the stage was set for a deadly and tragic confrontation.
Download or read book Trial of David S Terry by the Committee of Vigilance San Francisco written by David Smith Terry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of David S Terry written by Alexander E. Wagstaff and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Servants of the Law written by Donald R. Burrill and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among the judicial immigrants ... were the southerner David S. Terry of Texas and the northerner Stephen J. Field of New York. These men served on California's highest court during its formative, strenuous years from 1855 to 1863. ... The intellectual similarities and differences that these two shared ... played themselves out over a period of 35 years and brought about a series of events that neither man could have envisioned. Their exchanges began as wary judicial amity within the courtroom, but in short order spilled out into the community as public grudges. Neither judge could tolerate the other's regional provincialism; hence, lifelong resentments inevitably turned into a bitterness that led to tragedy"--Foreword, p. vii.
Download or read book David S Terry of California Dueling Judge written by Albert Russell Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of one of the first Supreme Court judges of California, and one of the most controversial figures in early California history.
Download or read book Life of David S Terry written by A E Wagstaff and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-12-07 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Chicken written by David Henry Sterry and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I walk all the way up Hollywood Boulevard to Grauman's Chinese Theatre: past tourists snapping shots; wannabe starlets sparkling by in miniskirts with head shots in their hands and moondust in their eyes; rowdy cowboys drinking with drunken Indians; black businessmen bustling by briskly in crisp suits; ladies who do not lunch with nylons rolled up below the knee pushing shopping carts full of everything they own; Mustangs rubbing up against muscular Mercedes and Hell's Angels hogs. It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice. Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-campus housing on Sunset Boulevard he was lured into a much darker world — servicing the lonely women of Hollywood by night. Chicken—the word is slang for a young male prostitute—revisits this year of living dangerously, in a narrative of dazzling inventiveness and searing candor. Shifting back and forth from tales of Sterry's youth—spent in the awkward bosom of a disintegrating dysfunctional family—to his fascinating account of the Neverland of post—sixties sexual excess, Chicken teems with Felliniesque characters and set pieces worthy of Dionysus. And when the life finally overwhelms Sterry, his retreat from the profession will leave an indelible mark on readers' minds and hearts.
Download or read book The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War written by Leonard L. Richards and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-02-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves—by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new transcontinental railroad that would run through the South. Yet, despite their machinations, California entered the union as a free state. Disillusioned Southerners would agitate for even more slave territory, leading to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and, ultimately, to the Civil War itself.
Download or read book Great American Judges 2 volumes written by John R. Vile and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 1031 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiring and instructive biographies of the 100 most influential judges from state and federal courts in one easy-to-access volume. Great American Judges profiles 100 outstanding judges and justices in a full sweep of U.S. history. Chosen by lawyers, historians, and political scientists, these men and women laid the foundation of U.S. law. A complement to Great American Lawyers, together these two volumes create a complete picture of our nation's top legal minds from colonial times to today. Following an introduction on the role of judges in American history are A–Z biographical entries portraying this diverse group from extraordinarily different backgrounds. Students and history enthusiasts will appreciate the accomplishments of these role models and the connections between their inspiring lives and their far-reaching legal decisions. William Rehnquist, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and 12 other Supreme Court justices are found alongside federal judges like Skelly Wright, who ordered school desegregation in 1960. Influential state judges such as Rose Elizabeth Bird, California's first woman Supreme Court Chief Justice, are also featured.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court written by David Shultz and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A-Z reference containing over 500 entries related to the history, important individuals, structure, and proceedings of the United States Supreme Court.
Download or read book Supreme Court Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Devils Will Reign written by Sally Zanjani and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada entered the Union in 1864 as the thirty-sixth state, a mere two decades after John Charles Frémont and his party undertook the first Euro-American exploration of the Great Basin. However, the intervening years were exceptionally eventful—gold was discovered in California in 1848; the debate over slavery in the territories made the Far West a significant topic of congressional concern; and the Mormon establishment in Utah stimulated national suspicion of the sect’s ambitions and policies—giving this remote, sparsely populated region on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada an importance that it probably would not have had in less turbulent times. In 1849, more than 22,000 people traveled the emigrant trails across the Great Basin, and soon Mormons from Utah set up a trading station in the Carson Valley to reap profit from the emigrant trade and anchor the western periphery of what their leader, Brigham Young, envisioned as a Mormon inland empire. Miners in Gold Canyon (just south of what is now Virginia City) and settlers in the Carson Valley were pushing the Native Americans out of their ancient homelands and vying with one another for control of choice land and rudimentary local governments. In Devils Will Reign, acclaimed historian Sally Zanjani recounts the momentous early history of the territory that is now known as Nevada, weaving the colorful saga of this rowdy frontier into the larger story of national political crises and economic ambitions, rapid development in California, and religious antipathy toward the polygamous Mormons. Here are intrepid frontiersmen, beleaguered Native Americans, zealous Mormons, and colorful characters and farmers, including a group of African Americans who successfully settled in the Carson Valley. Zanjani covers the lives of the pioneers, as well as the development and impact of the Comstock silver bonanza and the tenuous, halting efforts of the region’s residents to create first a territorial, then a state government. Seldom has the process of western settlement and government-making been described with such detail and insight.
Download or read book Supreme Court Reporter Cases Argued and Determined in the United States Supreme Court written by Robert Desty and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.
