Judge Gaoled for Selling Verdicts
HUGE FORTUNE ACCUMULATED BY GRAFT United Press Association.—P.y Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. NEW YORK. June 20. Judge Martin Manton, of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and fined 10,000 dollars for betrayal of his judicial trust. The sentence came as the climax to a sensational case in which evidence was given that Manton accumulated a huge fortune by selling verdicts. He is the first Federal Appeals judge ever to be convicted. The Court, in imposing sentence, said that the case “had no such conspicuous parallel in the history of the English or American high judiciary since Francis Bacon, then Lord Chancellor of England, was deprived of office for a similar cause over 800 years ago.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 8
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