Tolbert v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.2d 78 · 1926
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
June 1935
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
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““From what has already been said, the only important question of fact in controversy was as to whether the negroes and the Giberts were trying to bribe Tolbert not to do his duty, or whether he and Norris were seeking to extort money from them. Under these circumstances, we think it was quite within the discretion of the trial judge to permit the witnesses on each side so to tell their story, as to make clear the sequence of events as they knew of them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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