Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-19
\ COURTS.
n Criminal COuFf-AE New Grand Jury
Charge Of Judge FIiPPtn-shOrt
and sharp III About
Criminals.

Shortly after the Criminal court met
yesterday, In the Second Chsnoery court
room, Judge Flippin organized the fol-
lowing grand Jury, and delivered q charge
to 1t. which Is remarkable for it's terse
and forcible expression:
h GRAND IURY.
The following gentlemen COMPOSE the
grand jury: John s. ToOf (foremsnl John
Newsom, Moses Levy, D.. Frank, NJ. Erie
berg, B. NJ. Levy, Jacob Weller, John
League, Charles Loefel, Z. p. Bates, G.. A.
Junkerman, E. J. Bell, w. P. Mitchell.
After they had taken their seats, the
Judge delivered the following charge;
THE JUDGES CHARGE.
Gentlemen of the JGry-It is enjoined
upon the Court to give you an outline OF
your general duties, and to charge you
specially in reference to the violation Of
certain Legislative provisions. You are
the conservators Of the public peace; you
are invested with delicate duties, extraor-
binary powers and the greatest response
biIities. Intelligent, honest and faithful
juries are the chief guardians of the public
welfare. If true and fearless, you bind
society to the observance of law, without
which misruie and anarchy must follow,
and irretrievable ruin engulf us all. Laws
are worse thar no laws while not enforced,
but are standing mockeries upon the
statute books, proclaiming q vitiated pub
lie sentiment, or the corruption and
f~eebleness of the peoples officials. The
juries nave the power and must see to the
execution of the laws. The officers of the
courts, however efficient, are powerless
without your earnest and active co-opera-
ton. The country looks alone to you to
inRugurste proceedings for the suppress
sion of lswlessness and the punishment
of offenders. without your agency,
crime in our midst must 90 unrebuked.
You cannot, at this time, be derelict
without suhjecting yourselves to q richly
merited obloquy.
Public prosecutions originate with your
body, either by indictment or present.
ment. The latter proceeds upon the per-
sonal knowledge of some n Of your
body; the former upon the testimony of
witnesses.
1 call your especial attention to the law
against carrying deadly weapons. No
person shall carry, publicly or privately,
a dirk, sword-csne, Spanish s~tiletto, belt,
pocket-pistol or revolver. And the law
looks upon the carrying of these wesp-
to sny election, race, fair, or other
public gathering, with peculiar distavor
and as more highly punishable You are
heavily taxed by reason of this wide
spread vice, for generally it is worthless
individuals who set this law at defiance,
and suffer imprisonment at the cost Of
the State and county. Do al you can to
arrest this great evil. Indict every case.
Bowie-knives can neither be worn, sold
or offered for sale, or brought into the
State for sale.
The law win not permit any one to
give, sell or lend sny minor any deadly
or dangerous weapon above mentioned.
Il is the duty of all sheriffs, deputy
sheriffs, cOroners, justices of the peace
and constables to notify the grand jury of
q violation of the law against carrying
deadly weapons; and if these officers fail
or refuse to do so, they are liable to be
prosecuted and dismissed from office, and
1 ask you to see that they perform this
most important duty.
No one has a right to sell liquors in
and less quantity than q quart, to
be drank at or on the place Of sale, with
out a license.
No one has a right to retail spurious
liquors on Sunday. This law is too gen
orally violated. 1t ought to be enforced.
good citizens now look to you for a
reform in this matter. Prosecute every
and no longer let the ssnctity Of
,he Christian Sabbath be desecrated by
such an illegal traffic.
1t is q felony for any to sdulterSte
spirits or vinous liquors with strychnine
)r other poisonous liquors or ingredients, |
Or to sell the same, knowing it to be sdul-
iersted, either by wholesale or retail.
It is q misdemesnor for any one to man
fracture or rectify, to sell or otter for sale
spurious or alcoholic liquors within
State without the party takes and
Jubscribes an oath before the County
Court not to mix or sdulterste with any
substance whatever, the liquors offered
or sale; and also gives bond in the sum
# five hundred dollars for the payment
# all costs arising from prosecutions for
violation OF this law. If you are of the
have the power to send for persons
md papers.
Is is 8 high misdemeanOr for one to sell
II offer for sale oil made from petroleum,
or Illuminating purposes, inhammsble at
ess temperature han hundred and
Wenty degrees Fahrenheit. In view of
he daily record of deaths resulting from
ne use OF non-explosiYe oils, so-cslled,
matter is respectfully referred to you
Or your consideration. II you find any
GLOW the legal standard, prosecute those
cling or offering to sell the same.
1t Is a felony for one to fraudulently
sex or bale cotton or tobacco. If non
esidents knowingly sell such articles in
bis State, they too are guilty of a felony.
his is q wholesome Law, and should be
igidly enforced.
1t is a misdemeanor, under a penalty
( not less than one Thousand dollars, for
ersOns acting as guardians to refuse to
oliver up effects of minors upon their
Gaming is q misdemesnor more ruinous
than all Others, in its manifold
Onsequences. It's effects are poisonous.
matters not in what guise It appears.
! is the slluring bait of an uncomfortable
Omething, risked for the delusive chance
resping disproportioned greater bsne-
is. 1t Injuries honest industry, stimu-
ties idleness, too often begets dissipation
nd invariably ruins him who follows it.
ottsries, rsfhes, gift concerts and
,hemes Of distribution, for the most
art, Illegally published in respectable
ewspapers, are but different species of
lis hydra-hesded vice. Indict keepers,
'lers, and buyers of tickets, and break
p the unlawful business; unlawful, forf
generally graded in fraud and ends in
swindle.
Close up, ifyou can, keno rooms; for of all
'ecies OF gaming, perhaps, this is the
lost injurious. Here youth and age put
OWN their dollars and hundreds, and.
one or later, leave bankrupt in purse
Id morals. Keno SDGLLOagS market BEOneu. J
robs the returning toiler Of his weeks
ages, bids wife and children feed on
ssted hopes and bitter memories,
othes them in rags, drsgs them down to ]
'nury and too often to crime. I cannot {
strongly invoke you to wage against ]
an unrelenting warfare. {
lndict all officers guilty of extortion.
demand and receive a compensation
T services before it Is due, or more than 2
due, is extortion.
M~iscegenstion, prostitution, open and '
'torious lewdness, lbels and c~onspira-
IS are all indictsble.
When you suspect q violation of law
n have the power to send for witnesses
ID examine them in cases of counterfeit
&, gaming, illegal voting, tipping, dis 4
rbing public worship, injuries to public ;
llld1ngs, the carrying of concealed
the sale of weapons to minors.
the sale, giving or dealing-ot liquors to :
?
Look into the condition and manage
snt Of the county buildings and institu-
ms; also the bonds of county officers.
d report to this Court. See as to the
of the roads and highways, -
neither signboards are on the same, and
so, whether properly marked.
[ have now given you a brief chart of :
ar duties. Confer freely with the I
General. Your labors are n
49, PASsAooSoNf JOU nave mucQ
fore you to do-much that is painful 7
d unpleasant; but do your sworn duty, z
70 brave, conscientious men, and the y
lies and plaudits OF this community =
II reward your lsbors.
After this the Court adjourned to Thurs 8
?.
Circuit COurt-HaIsey, Judge.
Iuries were empanneled in this court
sterday, and judgments rendered In
cases. The case Of Thurston VS..
hon was on trial when court adjourned. 81
will be resumed this morning, and az s
the same is disposed, gsrnishees sum- is
med for the term will be required to a
swer. The following cases win also be N
2S04, Renkert VS.. Murphy; 3OO5. 81
Tyer VS.. Wright and Powell; 3OO7, Cur "
vs.. Piummer; S0l0, Venable VS., Swear IL
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