The Legal Chief Justice John Russell Tyson resigned his position on the bench of the Alabama Supreme Court February 5 to practice law in Montgomery, Ala.
Mr. William D. Guthrie of the New York bar is giving a series of eight public lectures at Columbia University on "The Judicial Power under the Constitution of the United States." Hon. Francis L. Wellman is giving a course of public lectures under the auspices of Fordham University School of Law at the Catholic Club, 120 Central Park South, New York, on "The Trial Lawyer; with Some Practical Sug gestions on the Trial of Cases Before Juries," the dates being February 4, March 11, April 15 and May 6. The James Wilson Law Club of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania held their tenth annual banquet at the University Club, Phila delphia, March 11. Mr. Charles Crawford Hindman, Jr., '09, acted as toastmaster, and the guests were Hon. Robert von Moschzisker, Hon. William H. Staake, Hon. Joseph ' F. Lamorelle, John M. Gest, Esq., William Draper Lewis, Esq., Crawford D. Hening, Esq., and Glenn C. Mead, Esq. The officers of the club are as follows: Winfield Wilson Crawford, '09, president; John Joseph Stetser, '09, vicepresident; Edward Wallace Chadwick, '10, secretary; William Page Harbeson, '10, cor responding secretary; and Charles Crawford Hindman, Jr., '09, treasurer. The member ship, besides the foregoing, includes Messrs. J. C. Arnold, S. D. Bell, H. K. Chang, A. McConnell, D. H. Parker, G. H. Baur, W. H. Brundage, R. A. Dungan, F. H. Gaston, J. T. Gibbs, J. G. Gordon, Jr., B. H. Hepburn, R. E. Lamberton, J. E. Nachod, F. A. Paul, T. M. Woodward, J. Adams, Jr., H. B. Dutton, W. S. Farquhar, L. J. Frank, R. E. Harcourt, J. B. Holland, T. McC. Hyndman, W. McC. Johnson, H. C. Parkin, J. F. Ryan, J. F. R. Scott, P. M. Sloan, J. R. Waite, E. L. Wal lace, W. R. White, and R. B. Woodring. The interesting menu will be found on one of the pages of the Editor's Bag.
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The Justices of the Supreme Court of New York, tired of their cramped quarters in the Tweed County Court House, and weary of the delays of the County Court House Commis sion, will undertake the selection of a site and the building of a new court house them selves. In this they will follow the precedent of the Justices of the Appellate Division, who managed the erection of their court building on Madison Square. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia on March 11 affirmed the antiboycott injunction granted to the Bucks Stove and Range Company, in connection with which Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison of the Federation of Labor were sentenced to a year in jail for contempt. The sting of this judgment was modified to some extent by the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice Shepard, who said that the constitutional right of a free press should have protected the Federationist from restraint, and that if it did conspire by publishing its unfair list, the remedy of the injured party should have been in a civil suit for damages. The celebrated trial of Col. Duncan B. Cooper and his son Robin Cooper, charged with the murder of former United States Senator Edward Ward Carmack, who was fatally shot on the streets of Nashville Nov. 9, 1908, ended Mar. 20 with a verdict of murder in the second degree, with twenty years' imprisonment as the penalty. The trial lasted three months, and thirty-one days were taken to select the jury, the competence of which has been widely commented upon on account of the presence of illiterate per sons upon it. After a month of testimony the attorneys for both sides began summing up. Arguments of extreme length were heard. Each attorney took a day for his address, and Gen. Washington of counsel for the defense, took twenty-one hours to put his argument before the jury. Judge Hart then took two days to prepare his charge of instructions, which made 30,000 words, and was the longest set of instructions given to any jury in a criminal case in the history of Tennessee.
