LYNNE, District Judge.
When a judge is confronted by a factual situation in which his sense of inherent justice seems to be at war with his appreciation of the applicable law, it behooves him to proceed with more than ordinary caution. Strained construction, the device of the judge who seeks to reconcile legal logic with his individual concept of natural right and wrong, first begets, then multiplies confusion.
On May 8, 1948, in the City of Anniston, Alabama...
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