Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1839-05-09

A SCENE IN CoURT.--A Georgia poper ,oli.
a aughable story Of trial in one Of the Gu en-
gan Circuits. Henry Day was charged win
an attempt to kill his wife, day was a pale lirIn
man. and the wife who was present, was NJ"
feet Behemoth. The indictment being reos
the prisoner was asked to say whether he waa
equity or not guilty" lie answered, 0thero,'
a mighty chance for lawyers lies in the =.
pers; but some part Of it is true did s,riH%~'
the lady, but she fit me powerfully first. SSe
can swear equal 10 little of any THING 0nS
her kicks are awful | reckon what Won on S sao
about the devil moving me is tolcrable correc;
seeing as how she moved me. have told von WI,
all know bout the circumstances, miste,
gin Squire Jones there a five dollar bin, and
allow he'll talk it out for me. Squire Jono,
thereupon rose, and said he had law poin 70
rise in the case, which he thought conclusive
1t was an established rule in law that m,o
and wife are but one, and he should like ~
know how man could be punished for wbin,
ping himself, he should be glad to hear whpp,
the solicitor general would say to that. Tho
solicitor general answered, that he tbopoh,
his brother Jones had carried tho maxim +,
tie too far, men had often been punished f.,
beating their wives. lfa man killed his wiz,
it would not be suicide-Here Squire Jones in
terposed, and defed the solicitor general TO nro.
duce any authority to that effect The soIio
tor general looked over "Green's and Inv
kin's Georgia JUSTICE for some minnteo NH
then observed, that he could not find an au,hnr.
ty just then; he was sure he had seen tho nrin.
cipe somewhere and called on the iudpe IA
sustain him. The Judge said he would not do.
eide the question, whether, if man killed hia
wife, it was murder or suicide. He was No,
prepared to express an opinion on that point
1t was a very delicate one, and he had no idea
of committing himself
1t seems that the jury 'hung' over till the
next morning. The Judge, clerk, and sheriff,
had been up all night, and looked wolfsh. and
the baiIif was seated on his white hat at the
door of the jury room, and his countenance ex.
pressed that he had swallowed the concentrated
venom of thousand wild cats. The most aw.
full curses, oaths, and sounds, proceeded from
the jury room; some neighing like horses,
growing like ROSTERS, etc.
At last a consultation was held at the door
orthe jury room, between the bailitf and fore.
man, whereupon the former came into the
court room and addressed the judge-"Mr.
Tom Jakes says the jury can't agree about this
here man, and if you keep him Il. G. Tom
Jakes) without grog any more, he will lick you
out on sight" The Judge appealed to the bar
if this was not contempt to court, and Screen
and Lumpkin's Georgia Justice" having been
consulted, it was finally decided that it was
threat addressed to the Judge as private indl,
vidual, and was to whip him son sight," and
not on the bench it was not (under the free, en-
lghtened and democratic principle of Georgia
legslation) a contempt ofcourt-This beingse
ted the Judge directed the bailff to say to Tom
Jakes, the foreman, that the jury shall agree if
they stayed thro' eternity. And it is yet m.
certain whether the jury are now sitting and
yelling as they did on the first night of their
incubation.