The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-04-10
THE COURTS

I THE COURTS YESTERDAY.
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III. c,rcuft Court ut q stand-Still-Tho
G-sKu-KIux Cases inSPsparation.
n the ,Uniited States Court yesterday but
very little business was transacted, and In
fact this court appears to have come to a
staud-stll In consequence o. the non-arrlVal
EofJudge.B Bond, who was expected to arrive
on Monday: ! night, to preside over the APP
pproaching trials of the Ku-Kllx cages. BY
"a curious conflict of dates in the law relating
to the holding of United States Courts, a term
of the United statest Circuit Court is7ordered
to be held at Richmond, Virginia, beginning
on the first Monday o fApril in each year, ana
a term OF the United States Circuit Court, pre-
sided over by the same Judge, Is also oroerea
| to be begun at Charleston, s. G., on the nrs1
Monday. Of April in each year. Under lnese
circumstances Judge Bond has the option OF
which court he shall hold first, and 1t seems
that ne has chosen to begin at Richmond. he
expected. however, to be able to complete the
most important business before the court at
Richmond during the first week Oh the nrst
term, and then come to Charleston 30 as to
arrive here on Monday night; but it appears
that he has been obliged to change this pro-
gramme, and the date of his arrival here Is
now a matter of some uncertainty.
La; the meantime, Judge Bryan. who has
been holding the Circuit Court here since the
1stinstant, has disposed of all the cases on
the docket, with tie exception Of the Ku-Klux
cases, and there is now but little for the court
10 do until the arrival of the circuit Judge.
District Attorney Corbin and his assistant, MT.
Earle, are industriously engaged in;!prelimi-
nary examinations OF witnesses, (and, by the
way, are permitting an intolerable Nuisance
bv keeping q crowd of il.conditioned and ILL.,
hammered negro witnesses waiting on the
sidewalk in front of their Office. on Meeting
street and in preparing their cases for pre-
sentatIon to the grand jury. 1t is understood
that avery large-number of cases are IN prep
aration. and that most of the persons said to
be implicated, have already been arrested.
Among the counsefwho are expected to de-
-fend these defendants are Colonel F. W.
McMaster, of Columbia, and Messrs. Buist d
Bulst, Presley, Lord q IDglesby and Simon
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| ton & Barker, Of this city.
The Inferior Court.
In the Inferior !. Court, yesterday, James
Lewis was tried upon charges Of malicious
trsessIpass, and OF assault: with intent to kill, and
assault and battery. aud found not guilty OF
either charge.
william Fraser was tried for grand larceny
and found guilty, with q recommendation TO
mercy. IL II IT,
The case of John d. Grotheer was struck OIL
the docket upon payment of costs, and the
cases of Joseph Truall, A. Marochetti and
Peter Collins, charged with assault and false
imprisonment, were struck of %uncondition'
ally.
IA number of witnesses were absent, as on
the preceding day, and attachments were or
dered to oe Issued against them.
The grand jury returned true bills OF indict'
ment against James Harvey aud Henry Baker
| for assault with intent to kill and assault and
battery; sabey Cash. for petty larceny, and
Samuel smalls and John Parker, grand larce-
! nv. No bill was found against Elizabeth
Dennis.
In the Court of Common Pleas, held by
Judge R: F. Graham, the following calendar
will be called to-day: VIM. Blalock vs.. John
Meyers ct al; Eugene A. RoSe ct al, va. Mary
Ann E. Mulcahy; Aston P. Kllpstien vs.. Thos.
P. Jerman, trustee; Robert Austin vs. J. N. V.
B. Ward, ct al; Theodore D. Wagner ct al, We.
| the State Bank.