Show MITCHELL CASE ENDED death has stopped the machinery of the law washington dec 11 on motion oc senator thurston chief justice fuller on behalf of the supreme court of the united states decided the issuance of an order dismissing the appeal of the late senator mitchell la the case against him the proceeding was brief senator thurston announced the death of the oregon senator and moved the dismissal of the case in directing the order the chief justice merely remarked that this course was usual in criminal cases |