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Pollock Vs. Williams

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Apr 10, 1944

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  7. James-dickinson Farm Mortgage Co. Vs. Harry US Supreme Court · Jan 10, 1927
  8. U.S. 4 (1944) U.S. Supreme Court Pollock v. Williams
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  9. U.S. 4 (1944) Pollock v. Williams
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  10. J. v. O'Albora
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  11. It read our decisions in Bailey v. Alabama
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  12. and Taylor v. Georgia
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  13. Congress thus raised both a shield and a sword against forced labor because of debt. Clyatt v. United
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  14. Then came the twice-considered case of Bailey v. Alabama
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  15. U. S. 10 This Court held the presumption, in such a context, to be unconstitutional. Later came United States v. Reynolds
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  16. and United States v. Broughton
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  17. It held the Alabama statute unconstitutional, and employers under it subject to prosecution. In Taylor v. Georgia
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  18. was indicted under the Federal Act for arresting a debtor to peonage, and we sustained the indictment. United States v. Gaskin
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  19. In 1905, this Court decided Clyatt v. United
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  20. In 1911, in Bailey v. Alabama
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  21. Florida Supreme Court Page 322 U. S. 13 held this act, standing alone, void under the authority of Bailey v. Alabama
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  22. but in transactions that did not involve involuntary labor to discharge a debt. James-Dickinson Farm Mortgage Co. v. Harry
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  23. to punish fraud, the inevitable effect of the law was to punish failure to perform labor contracts. In Taylor v. Georgia
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  24. the inquiry further than the Act before us. Page 322 U. S. 25 Another matter deserves notice. In Bailey v. Alabama
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  25. the prisoner to testify to his uncommunicated intent, which handicapped him in meeting the presumption. In Taylor v. Georgia
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  26. as against presumptions. These distinctions, we think, are without consequence. As Mr. Justice Byrnes said in Taylor v. Georgia
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  27. Libtz v. Coleman
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  28. Williams v. Pollock
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  29. United States v. Eberhart
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  30. United States v. McClellan
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  31. Taylor v. United
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  32. Goode v. Nelson
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  33. Phillips v. Bell
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  34. Fla. 225, 94 So. 699. In this case, no reference was made to the prior decision of the Florida court in Goode v. Nelson
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  35. Florida Laws 1943, c. 22000, approved June 10, 1943. Taylor v. Georgia
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  36. U. S. 587 , 294 U. S. 589 . See Lisenba v. California
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  37. Broad River Power Co. v. South
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  38. Demorest v. City
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  39. Loeb v. Jennings
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  40. Dunbar v. Atlanta
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  41. Ga.App. 434, 67 S.E. 107. Cf. Chicago v. Williams
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  42. Chicago v. Coleman
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  43. which coerces that labor by fear of a conviction obtained by a presumption of law which may be false in fact. Taylor v. Georgia
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  44. Legislation need not seek to correct every abuse by a single enactment. The state may select its objective. Whitney v. California
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  45. not in peonage, work for a debt, but in punishment for crime, probably in the county work house. Cf. United States v. Reynolds
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  46. not the first challenge of the act which has appeared in this court. The identical matter was considered in Phillips v. Bell
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  47. The court then took up Bailey v. Alabama
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  48. play. Not being faced with that problem here, we conclude that the first Bailey decision and ours in Phillips v. Bell
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Pollock v. Williams
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  50. Clyatt v. United
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