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# Miller v. United States (233 U.S. 1)

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United States Supreme Court
233 U.S. 1
Miller v. United States (233 U.S. 1)
Argued: January 19 and 20, 1914. --- Decided: April 6, 1914
Messrs. Louis T. Michener and Perry G. Michener for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 2-3 intentionally omitted]
Assistant Attorney General Thompson for appellee: Mr. Chief Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Miller v. United States (317 U.S. 192)

United States Supreme Court
317 U.S. 192
MILLER v. UNITED STATES.
No. 76. Argued: November 18, 1942. --- Decided: December 7, 1942.
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT.
* The in forma pauperis statute (Act of July 20, 1892, as amended) does not entitle an indigent defendant in a criminal case to be furnished a verbatim transcript of the evidence at public expense. P. 197.
* A verbatim transcript of all the evidence is not necessary for the preparation of a bill of exceptions; the bill may be prepared from the judge's or counsel's notes, or from the recollection of witnesses as to what occurred at the trial, or, in short, from any and all sources which will contribute to a veracious account of the trial judge's action and the basis of his ruling. P. 198.
* Upon a petition to the Circuit Court of Appeals for rehearing of its affirmance, on an appeal in forma pauperis, of a conviction in a criminal case, it appeared that the petitioner's contention that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the verdict had not been properly presented because of his counsel's belief that a transcript of the evidence (which the petitioner was without funds to obtain) was necessary for the preparation of a bill of exceptions covering the point. Held, that, in the circumstances, the Circuit Court of Appeals had power, under Rule 4 of the Criminal Appeals Rules, to remand the cause to the District Court for the settlement of a proper bill of exceptions. P. 199.
* The cause is remanded to the Circuit Court of Appeals for entry of an order permitting settlement in the District Court of a bill of exceptions presenting the point urged by the petitioner. Thereupon, it will be the duty of counsel for the petitioner to submit a bill of exceptions made up from the best sources available; and it will then be the duty of the district judge to assist in amplifying, correcting and perfecting the bill, and to settle the same in order to present the evidence given at the trial. P. 199.
123 F.2d 715, reversed.
CERTIORARI, 316 U.S. 658, to review the affirmance of a conviction of kidnapping in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 408a. For other opinions of the court below in this case, see 124 F.2d 849, 126 F.2d 462.
Mr. Howard C. Westwood, with whom Mr. Charles M. Davison, Jr. was on the brief, for petitioner.
Mr. Archibald Cox, with whom Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Berge, and Mr. Robert S. Erdahl were on the brief, for the United States.
MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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       Rehearing Denied Jan. 11, 1943.— 317 U.S. 713, 63 S.Ct. 438, 87 L.Ed. p.713
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# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, William Frederick

​Webster, William Frederick, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb. (Whewell international law scholar), 1881, a member of the Midland circuit, a student of Lincoln's Inn 25 March, 1879 (then aged 23), called to the bar 3 May, 1882 (eldest son of William Thomas Webster, of Highbury Hill, London); born 15 July, 1855; unmarried.
    15, Highbury Hill, N.; 9, Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, James Claude

​Webster, James Claude, a student of the Middle Temple 31 Oct., 1854, called to the bar 26 Jan., 1858 (eldest son of late James Webster, Esq., of Chelsea, Middlesex); born 17 Oct., 1830; married 1st, 1 Sept., 1857, Georgiana Susan Hardcastle, youngest dau, of George Spry, Esq., late of Bath; she died 2 Sept., 1882; he married 2ndly, 1 Dec, 1884, Frances Juliana, youngest dau, of James Hooman, Esq., formerly of the Copse, co. Worc.
    3, Harcourt Buildings, Temple, E.C.; Athenæum Club.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, Richard Everard

​Webster, Richard Everard, Q.C., M.A. (scholar, thirty-fifth wrangler, and 3rd class classics), Trin. Coll., Camb., 1868, educated at King's Coll. School and Charterhouse, a member of the South-eastern circuit, "tubman" of Court of Exchequer 1872-4 and "postman" 1874-8, a student of Lincoln's Inn 22 April, 1865 (then aged 22), called to the bar 30 April, 1868, Q.C. April, 1878, bencher 2 Nov., 1881 (2nd son of Thomas Webster, Q.C., late a master of the bench, dec.); born 22 Dec., 1842; married 18 Aug., 1872, Louisa Mary, only dau. of William Charles Calthrop, Esq., of Withern, co. Lincoln.
    Hornton Lodge, Pitt Street, Kensington, W.; 2, Pump Court, Temple, E.C.; Athenæum, United University, and St. Stephen's Clubs.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Weightman, Thomas Turner

​Weightman, Thomas Turner, B.A., Magdalen Hall, Oxon, 1862, a member of the Midland circuit, author of A Handbook of the Bankruptcy Act 1869, a student of the Inner Temple 1 Nov., 1861 (then aged 21), called to the bar 6 June, 1864 (2nd son of William Weightman, Esq., late of Leicester, dec.); born 2 Sept., 1840; married 9 April, 1874, Emma Sophia, only child of late James Rawson, Esq., of Leicester.
    Willoughby House, Nottingham; Shacklecross, Derbyshire.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, Robert Grant

​Webster, Robert Grant, LL.B., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1868, a member of the Northern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 16 Nov., 1856 (then aged 21), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1869 (only son of Robert Webster, late of Montrose, merchant, dec.); born , 1845; married 18 April, 1872, Emily, only dau. of B. M. Jalland, Esq., of Holderness House, Hull.
    83, Belgrave Road, S.W.; 1. Temple Gardens, E.C.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Ogilvy

​Wedderburn, Alexander Dundas Ogilvy, B.A. (honours), Balliol Coll., Oxon, 1878, from Haileybury Coll., Herts, a member of the South-eastern circuit, a student of the Inner Temple 20 Dec., 1875 (then aged 21), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1880 (only surviving son of James Alexander Wedderburn, late of Auchter House, co. Forfar, dec.); born 7 Aug., 1854; unmarried (see Foster's Baronetage).
    76, Cadogan Place, S.W.; Farrar's Buildings, Temple, E.C.; United University Club, S.W.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, John

​Webster, John, B.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1863, a student of the Inner Temple 14 Oct., 1859 (then aged 20), called to the bar 17 Nov., 1863 (2nd son of George Webster, Esq., of Burnside House, co. Forfar); born , 1839; married 4 Feb., 1874, Jessie, 3rd dau. of John Miller, Esq., of Leithen and Drumlithe.
    Burnside House, Forfar.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Weir, Charles Sims

​Weir, Charles Sims, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., 1844, a student of Lincoln's Inn 13 April, 1841 (then aged 21), called to the bar 11 June, 1844 (2nd son of late John Weir, Esq., of London, dec.); born , 1820.
    Chesterton Road, Cambridge; Lanark.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Webster, George Kennedy

​Webster, George Kennedy, of the Bengal C.S. 1863-77, a student of the Middle Temple 2 Nov., 1861, called to the bar 17 Nov., 1863 (3rd son of George Webster, of Burnside House, co. Forfar, N.B., sheriff and commissary clerk of the county); born , .
    Burnside House, Forfar, N.B.
# Men-at-the-Bar/Wedderburn, Harry George

​Wedderburn, Harry George, B,A., Balliol Coll., Oxon, 1874, law reporter and official trustee High Court Madras, a student of the Inner Temple 20 April, 1870 (then aged 19), called to the bar 30 April, 1875 (2nd son of Andrew Wedderburn, E.I.C.S.); born , 1851; married 29 Dec., 1881, Jane Trevelyan, youngest dau. of David Fremantle Carmichael, Esq., Madras C.S. (see Foster's Baronetage).
    Madras.
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Thomas Hawkins

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Sir Thomas Hawkins,
SCHOLAR,
Was a member of an ancient and well-known Kentish family, the Hawkinses of Nash, being son and heir of Thomas Hawkins of that place, who died in 1588, aged 101 years. Sir Thomas was a person of fine accomplishments and learning. He translated Causinas' "Holy Court," the "Odes of Horace," etc. He died in 1640.
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Thomas Randolph

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Sir Thomas Randolph,
STATESMAN,
Was born at Badlesmere in 1523, and educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he became head of Bradgate (now Pembroke) College. During the reign of Mary he retired to the Continent; but on the accession of Elizabeth he returned and was received into great favour, and employed on embassies to France, Russia, and Scotland. For his services, especially in the latter country, he was knighted by the Queen and advanced to the offices of Chamberlain of the Exchequer and Postmaster. He died in 1590. Many of his letters and despatches are preserved, and ​afford interesting memorials of the events of the time; and his account of his embassy to Russia is published in "Hackluyt's Voyages."
[See "Lodge's Illustrations of British History," and "Biographia Britannica."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir John Philpot

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Sir John Philpot,
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, 1378,
Was a Kentish man, born at Upton Court. He became possessed by marriage of the manor of Gillingham, in the reign of Henry III. He was at that time an Alderman of London, of the Grocers' Company, and an active and worthy magistrate of the city which he for three years represented in Parliament. In 1379 he was knighted by Richard II. in Smithfield, for his services in assisting Sir William Walworth in resisting Tyler's rebellion. Before this he had performed a remarkable service in fitting out a fleet of ships to clear the seas of the pirates that ​infested them. He surprised and took John Mercer, a Scotch pirate, who had greatly destroyed the trade of the city, together with fifteen sail of Spanish ships richly freighted, of which he made prizes. The wealth thus acquired he placed at the king's disposal, to maintain a thousand men in his war with France. He died in the year 1385, bequeathing many charitable legacies to the poor. He was buried with his wife, Lady Jane Stamford, in the Grey Friars Church, London.
[See "Stow's Survey of London," by Strype, and "Hasted's Kent."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Philip Sidney

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Sir Philip Sidney,
SOLDIER, STATESMAN, POET, ETC.,
Son of the preceding, is said to have been born at Penshurst 24th Nov., 1554. Of a character so well-known and of whom so much has been written, it is sufficient here to record the leading personal particulars. He was educated at the free school of Shrewsbury, where at the age of twelve he addressed two letters to his father, one in Latin the other in French, which elicited in answer a valuable compendium of instruction, which has been inserted in Dr. Zouch's life of Sir Philip. From Shrewsbury he went to Oxford, thence to Cambridge, and subsequently he travelled on the Continent, where he narrowly escaped the massacre in Paris on the day of St. Bartholomew. In Italy he made the acquaintance of Hubert Languet, to whom he professed himself most indebted for his knowledge of politics and government. In Vienna he devoted himself to horsemanship, the use of arms, and the manly and martial exercises befitting a youth of his position. He returned to England in 1575. He was soon after employed on several important diplomatic missions. In 1580 he retired from Court and commenced his famous romance "Arcadia." In the following year he was returned to represent Kent in Parliament. In 1583 he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. In 1585 he was named a competitor for the kingdom of Poland, but withdrew, choosing, according to Fuller, to be "a subject of Elizabeth, rather then a sovereign beyond ​seas." In the same year he was despatched on the expedition in which he terminated his brilliant existence. This was to operate in the Netherlands, in aid of the Protestants, against the Duke of Alva. The story of his wound before Zutphen is well known. He died at Amheim, 7th Oct., 1586, at the early age of thirty-two. He was buried at S. Paul's, 16th Feb., 1587, and the whole country went into mourning. "He was a gentleman finished and complete," than which there can be no higher praise. His virtues have been the subject of panegyric by all writers of the time. Spencer commemorated him under the name of Astrophel, and Sir Walter Raleigh calls him the English Petrarch. "He trod from his cradle to his grave amid incense and flowers, and died in a dream of glory." Besides his "Arcadia," he has left many poems, songs, sonnets, and miscellaneous writings. The latter were collected and published by Gray in 1829.
[See "Zouch's Memoirs and Histories of the Period.]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Nicholas Bacon

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Sir Nicholas Bacon,
Statesman,
The second son of Robert Bacon, of Drinkstone, Suffolk, was born at Chislehurst in 1509. Though a Kentish man by birth, therefore, he did not belong to a Kentish family, both his father and mother being of Suffolk. Neither does he seem to have lived long in the county, for he was educated at the school at Bury, subsequently at Cambridge, and finally at Gray's Inn. It is something, however, to say that a man so illustrious in himself, and so much more so in the reflected glory of his greater son, the famous Lord Chancellor and philosopher, should have seen the light and spent his nursery days in the county. Whilst at the University he became acquainted with William Cecil, Lord Burghley, and Matthew Parker, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. Later he became known to Cranmer, who recommended him to Cromwell. In 1537 he received his first appointment as solicitor to the Court of Augmentation, and his first employment was in connection with the distribution of the property of the dissolved monasteries. In 1550 he became a bencher of Gray's Inn. Under Mary he retained his offices, and on the accession of Elizabeth his promotion was rapid. In 1558 he became keeper of the Great Seal, was knighted and admitted to the Privy Council. In 1559 he was authorised to hear causes in Chancery, and to exercise the full jurisdiction of Lord Chancellor. From this time on he took a leading part in all public affairs, particulars of which may be found in the histories of his time. ​In 1563 be built his famous house at Gorhambury, where he entertained Queen Elizabeth. He died at his residence, York Souse, in London, 20th February, 1578-9, and was buried in St. Paul's. He was twice married, and the celebrated Francis Bacon, afterwards Viscount St. Albans, was his second son by his second wife, Ann, daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke.
[Full particulars of Sir Nicholas's career may be found in most biographical collections. See "Froude's History" "Foss's Judges of England" "Dictionary of National Biography" and, for his connection with Kent, see "Archæologia Cantiana" vol. 13.]
There is a portrait of Nicholas Bacon by Zucchero in the collection of the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, copied in "Lodge's Portraits," vol. 2.
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Peter Pett

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Sir Peter Pett,
POLITICAL WRITER,
Was a descendant of Peter Pett (a Cumberland man). Master Builder of the Royal Navy to Queens Mary and Elizabeth, and born at Deptford in 1620. He was educated at St. Paul's School and at Oxford, and subsequently studied law at Gray's Inn. He held the appointments of Judge of the Admiralty and Advocate-General in Ireland, where he was knighted by the Duke of Ormonde. He died at his house in the Strand, and was buried at St. Martin's in the Fields. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and the author of several works including "The Memoirs of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey," in 1693. His uncle, Phineas Pett, ship-builder to James I. and Charles I., was born at Deptford, in 1570.
[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon." by Bliss.]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Richard Baker

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Sir Richard Baker,
Chronicler,
Was the grandson of the preceding Sir John Baker, and was born in 1568, probably at the family seat at Sissinghurst. His mother was Catherine, daughter of Reginald Scott, of Ashford. Richard became a commoner at Hart Hall, Oxford, where he shared his rooms with another Kentish man, Sir Henry Wotton. He left Oxford without graduating and studied the law, but the University subsequently conferred the degree of M.A. upon him, honoris causâ. In 1603 he was knighted by James I. In 1620 he was High Sheriff of Oxfordshire and owned the manor of Middle Aston; but he subsequently met with pecuniary misfortunes, and he died a debtor in the Fleet Prison 18th February, 1644-5. It was during Baker's residence in the Fleet that he began his literary work. His publications were numerous, but his chief work was his well-known "Chronicle of the Kings of England from the time of the Romans' Government unto the death of King James, 1642." This work was long the most popular history of England in existence. It went through many editions, and was continued by subsequent writers to the close of the reign of George I.
[For full particulars of his life and writings, see "Wood's Athenæ Oxon.," by Bliss; "Granger's Historical Biography"]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Roger Manwood

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Sir Roger Manwood,
JUDGE,
Roger Manwood was a native of Sandwich, where he was born in 1525. His grandfather had been twice mayor of the place, and its representative in Parliament in 1523. He was educated at the Grammar School of the town, and subsequently studied law at the Inner Temple. On his call to the Bar he was made Steward and recorder of his town, and elected its representative in Parliament, a position he continued to occupy till his call to the judicial bench. He became a Justice of the Common Pleas in 1572, and chief baron of the Exchequer in 1578, with the honour of knighthood. He testified his affection for his native town ​by establishing and endowing a free school there, which was incorporated in 1503, and is still called by his name. He also contributed liberally to other charitable and useful works in the county. In his latter years he incurred the displeasure of Elizabeth, and was restricted to his own house in Great St. Bartholomew's. The grief and anxiety caused by this disgrace in all probability hastened his end, which occurred 14th December, 1593. He was a man of great activity and energy but his character as a Judge is not altogether free from reproach. He is said by Fuller to have been the author of a treatise on the Forest Laws, but as no such work is now in existence, it is probable that that writer credited him with the celebrated work of John Manwood on the subject, the writer of which was probably a member of the same family, if not, (as some suppose), his son.
[See "Fullers' Worthies," and "Foss's Judges."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Roger Twysden

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Sir Roger Twysden,
ANTIQUARY,
Was born at East Peckham in 1597, where his family was very anciently settled. He was an eminent antiquary, a generous patron of learned men, and left behind him the united character of a scholar and a gentleman. He suffered much for his loyalty during the great rebellion, being at last forced to compound for his estate for the sum £1,300. He died June 27, 1672. His father, William Twysden, was also a man of acquirements, being "versed in different parts of learning, especially in the Hebrew and Latin Languages, and collected many choice manuscripts and books which he left to his son."
[See Wood's "Athenæ Oxon," "Collins's Baronetage," "Archæologia Cantiana, vols, 1-4., and "Hasted's Kent."]
# Men of Kent and Kentishmen/Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges

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Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges,
ANTIQUARY, ETC.
Samuel Egerton Brydges,
"a man to all the book tribe dear,"
was the son of Edward Brydges of Wootton Court, where he was born in 1762. He was educated at the Grammar School at Maidstone, at King's School, Cambridge, and at Queen's College in that University. He was called to the bar in 1787, but never applied himself with zeal to that profession. In 1789 he purchased the estate of Denton in his native county, but, becoming embarrassed, he removed to Lee Priory, near Canterbury. In 1790 he preferred a claim to the barony of Chandos, but the claim was dis-allowed by the House of Lords, though Sir ​Egerton never gave it up. He continued through life to sign himself "per legem terræ B. C. of S." (Baron Chandos of Sudeley). From the period of the rejection of his claim the Press teemed with writings bearing upon the decision. For the convenience of publication he set up a private press at Lee Priory, from which almost innumerable works proceeded.' Amongst other compositions he is said to have produced 2000 sonnets in one year. In 1812 he was elected Member of Parliament for Maidstone, and continued a Member till 1818, when he retired to the Continent, where he resided till his death at Geneva in 1837. His first volume of poems was published in 1785. Of his other numerous works, including novels, pamphlets, bibliographies, the most important are "Censura Literaria," 10 vols., 1805-9, and his Autobiography, 1834.
[For further particulars of his life see the above, and for a complete list, with criticisms, of his works see "Allibone's Dictionary of Authors."]
# Modern Russian Poetry/Captive Knight

Written in 1840, first published in 1841.
CAPTIVE KNIGHT
Silent I sit by the prison's high window,
Where through the bars the blue heavens are breaking.
Flecks in the azure, the free birds are playing;
Watching them fly there, my shamed heart is aching.
But on my sinful lips never a prayer,
Never a song in the praise of my charmer;
All I recall are far fights and old battles,
My heavy sword and my old iron armor.
Now in stone armor I hopelessly languish,
And a stone helmet my hot head encases,
This shield is proof against arrows and sword-play,
And without whip, without spur, my horse races.
Time is my horse, the swift-galloping charger,
And for a visor this bleak prison grating,
Walls of my prison are heavy stone armor;
Shielded by cast-iron doors, I am waiting.
Hurry, oh fast-flying Time, fly more quickly!
In my new armor I faint, I am choking.
I shall alight, with Death holding my stirrup,
Then my cold face from this visor uncloaking.
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# Modern Russian Poetry/Complaint

COMPLAINT
Your soul, born deaf and blind, inhabits
Jungles of sunless reverie,
Where with the crash of trampled saplings
Wild droves of dark desires roam free.
A torch I kindled in the darkness
To lead you to my starry gate,
With seeds of light in shining handfuls
The furrows of your night to sate.
I stand amid the trackless stretches
And hail you in the wilderness;
But lost in dark and dreary caverns
My cry sinks silent, answerless.
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