Hughes v. State

“A Requiem Dedicated to the Kitty Ge-noveses of this Country”

It is now axiomatic that in the decade that commenced with the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, and concluded with the separation of Tiny Tim from Miss Vicky in 1972, but perhaps even until now, violence in this country and State proliferated.

One of the reasons that has been given for what to many of us was a strange and unjustifiable phenomenon in this country is that citizens of this country and State became reluctant or afraid to get “involved” in deterring that violence, and refused to intervene in good faith on…