The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-17
The COurfs.

FIRST DISTRICT COURT.-Fhe following order
was entered on the minutes:
whereas, by an act promulgated on the 18th
instant, all members Of the bar are requiI ed to
present their licenses to the court, and whereas
the printed official receipts to be signed by the
auditor and treasurer are not yet prepared for
signature the district attorney being present and
cOnsentng thereto.
''It is ordered that the attorneys are hereby
granted delay until said official receipts can be
printed and ready for signature"
The following cas- es were tried Amos Price,
charge, assault and battery. Verdict guilty.
William jackson was found guilty of larceny.
Dan Green charged with the same ofense was
also found guilty.
William Baker was tried on the same charge.
The jury not beng able TO agree were discharged
ana Baker remanded.
On motion of M. A. Dooly, attorney for John
Kelly, found guilty of robbery, il was ordered
that the district attorney show cause on Saturday
why new trial should not be granted.
Information has been fled against Fred Hardin
ct. ais. for assault and battery.
The affidavit against John Emory, charged with
assault and battery, was dismissed.
N0ue prOSeq1tis were entered in the following
cases: Henry Williams: charge, assault and
battery. James Wallace ct. ais; charge, larceny.
jackson Cobb; same charge.
THIRD DISTRICT CoURr.-The following is the
judgment delivered yesterday by Judge Duvig-
Deaud, in the case of State of Louisiana ii. o.
Ames, case which involves question Of iden-
tity, and which proved Of considerable interest:
State of Louisiana vs.. II. q. Ames.-This is a
suit brought by the attorney general in the name
OF the State Of Louisiana, to annul the Geographic
will, made in 1862 and probated before this court
on the ground that the same is forgery.
No heirs having presented themselves at the
time Of the probating of said WILL the instituted
universal legstee was ut in possession of the
property left by the deceased, without opposi.
ton.
The State of Louisiana now claims the success.
in he nfl hal in fha
is set aside.
espcc thc ding Of shs. ssiiasaa a IA-s. ...sbsr
Of pretended neirs Of the deceased have presented
themselves, TO be recognized by this court as legal
heirs, and the case is still pending. Under the
circumstances of this case and the testimony the
court is not authorized to give final Judgment for
either party.
1t is therefore ordered and adiudged that there
he judgment for defendant, as in case of non
suit
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT-Mr. Jas. E.
McBeth, of the New York bar was YESTERDAY in.
troduced TO the bar of this court by Mr.. A. B.
Long. of this city, and after taking the usual OATH
was duly admitted to practice before the court.
Police Items.
RECORDER GAsTNEL's COURr.-Cressy colored, ,is
charged by Sarah Ann Douglass, colored with
assault and battery with dangerous weapon with
intent to kill. The case was continued to await
a regular affidavit.
the affidavit Of Marie Slater to be examined.
Bridget Smack, charged with the larceny of a
blanket al the station, was acquitted bat fined
ten dollars for being drunk.
j. B. Correjolles and Fred Oldmann were dis
charged from the accusation Of selling a keg of
spikes belonging to the city.
Peter SchOefier, accused by bis wife of beating
his own child, was allowed to go in peace.
RECORDER BEcKER's COURT.-Tom Smith, John
Lttlejobn and Dan Miller arrested for sleeping out
on the steamboat landing. were sent down for
four days each.
Pauline Jonii, colored, and John Fesney, sup
posed to be insane. we're sent to the asylum.
Frank Young, for assaulting his daughter with
brick on North Market street. was fined ten which
he can pay in dollars or days.
Bob Manassas got disastrous Bull Run sen.
fence. IN the shape OF s. or seven days. he
would get drunk and disturb the peaceful tran.
guilty of Franklin street.
Charley Rose and James Devine, charged with
being suspicious characters, were not proved so,
no prosecutor appearing.
Harriet Russell, colored, whose fondness for