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Description:: Judge Irvin Taplin in his robes looking over paperwork. Taplin served on the Municipal Court bench from 1931 to 1964.
Date:: [1936?]
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Judge Cecil Morgan of Louisiana observes court proceedings and attends law lectures at USC while on vacation in Southern California.
Date:: August 22, 1935
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Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Edward T. Bishop, Frank S. Hutton, and Joseph Crider, Jr. swear Goodwin S. Knight into office as judge of the Superior Court. Joseph Crider, Jr was the president of the Los Angeles Bar Association.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Edward T. Bishop, Frank S. Hutton, and Joseph Crider, Jr. swear Goodwin S. Knight into office as judge of the Superior Court. Joseph Crider, Jr was the president of the Los Angeles Bar Association.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Frank S. Hutton swears Goodwin S. Knight into office as judge of the Superior Court.
Date:: September 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Former boxer and middleweight champion of the world, Norman (Kid McCoy) Selby (standing left) and Judge A. A. Scott (seated right). Selby was in court to claim $105 that was taken from him by the authorities to use as evidence when he was arrested for murder 13 years ago. At that time (1924), Selby was charged with the murder of his sweetheart, Mrs. Theresa W. Moers. Selby served time in San Quentin before making parole in 1932. Selby was given back his $105 (all in large, old-style bills) minus a 10 cent county tax. He planned to use the money for some last minute Christmas shopping.
Date:: December 23, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Don Dixon demonstrating his accordion playing skills to Judge William R. McKay to prove that he was not drunk when he rammed his car into a parked automobile outside his house, but rather tired after a long night of accordion playing at a wedding. Judge McKay believed Dixon’s excuse. Isadore Maidel, Walter Slosson and Don Redwine listen in.
Date:: August 24, 1934
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Deputy Prosecutor L.C. Avery poses (on the left) with Judge Thomas L. Ambrose in a courtroom, possibly to do with the November 1934 election race for the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Date:: [1934?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Prominent Los Angeles defense attorney Jerry Giesler photographed addressing the jury, during the "white flame" double homicide trial of aviation executive Paul A. Wright. Wright was charged with the shooting deaths of his wife Evelyn and best friend John Kimmel, whom he claimed to have caught in an "inappropriate" embrace in the Wright home.Giesler led Wright's defense team, and argued that Wright was not guilty by reason of insanity. The jury found Wright guilty of two counts of manslaughter, and subsequently ruled that he had been insane at his sanity trial.Superior court judge Ingall W. Bull Sr. is visible in the background of the photograph.
Date:: [between January 13-February 18, 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Aspiring actresses (left to right) Phyllis Brooks, Evelyn Poe, and Helen Parrish receive approval from Judge Parker Wood for their film contracts with the studio R.-K.-O.
Date:: July 30, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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