Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-10-21
THE CIRCUIT COURT.

October term of the Court of Common
Pleas and General Sessions for the county of
York, his Honor JudgeT. J. Mackey presi-
ding, closed the business on the sessions dock
ct at half past four o'clock last Saturday
morning, having been in session all Of Friday
night, and on previous nights of the term
holding until midnight. Besides two capital
cases the following, in addition to those re-
ported in our last issue, were disposed of:
State U.s. Albert Robbins, colored; disturb
ing religious meeting. Verdict, not guilty.
State Us. Robert Wilson, colored grand
larceny. Pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
pay fine of twelve dollars and costs or to be
imprisoned for four months in the peniten'
tiary.
State us Adolphus Chambers, colored as
sault and battery with intent to kill. Ver'
dict of guilty. Sentenced to imprisonment in
the county Jail for oneday.
State u.s. Ned Tate, colored; assault and
battery with intent to kill. Verdict, guilty.
Sentenced to pay fine of twenty dollars and
costs, or to three months in the county Jail.
State Us. Fred Jones, colored; murder.
Verdict, not guilty. The prisoner was tried
for the murder of Mr.. Leonidas McNeel, on
whose land he was working as tenant, in
June last. All the material witnesses in the
case were colored, and their evidence was
quite voluminous-preventing its reproduce
ton in our columns this week. We will give
a more particular notice Of the trial in our
next issue.
State U.s. Jefferson Mcconnell, colored as
sault and battery. Verdict, guilty of assault.
Sentenced to one day in Jail.
State Us. Ned Hambright; highway rob-
berry. The offense charged was stealing the
hat off boys head on the highway. Pleaded
guilty. Sentence-one days. Imprisonment in
the county Jail.
State Us. Ben. Massey, colored false i'm
prisonment. Verdict, not guilty.
State u.s. J. B. Massey, colored; assault and
battery same u.s. Henry Massey, two cases
assault and battery with intent to kill same
Us. Parks Cooper, with intent to kill State Us.
j. B. Massey, riot. These cases all origina-
ted in the disturbance at Rock Hill last July,
on the occasion of an excursion to that town
by negroes from Charlotte For want of
prosecuting witnesses in two Of the cases, a
mol. pros. was entered as to them. The others
we're all tried at the same time, the same wit
nesses being examined in each case. Verdicts
of not guilty were returned in each case ex-
cept as to the one charging j. B. Massey with
assault aud battery He was sentenced to
pay fine of one dollar and costs, or to be
imprisoned in the county Jail for ten days.
State Us. Granderson Smith, coored as
sault and battery with intent to kill. Pleaded
guilty of assault and battery. Sentence, three
days in county Jail. State us. same, charging
him with abduction and marrying girl un-
der proper age. Pleaded guilty. Sentenced
to pay a fine of fifty dollars and costs, or to
be imprisoned five months in the penitentiary.
Charles Moore, colored, who on Monday of
the term, pleaded guilty of horse-stealing, was
sentenced to six months hard labor in the
penitentiary.
AS will be seen, nearly all of the offenders
indeed, all except three-that were tried for
violations of the law, were colored; and it
may not be improper to remark that many of
the cases we're sent up by trial justices.
An adjourned term of the court, for the
disposal ofcivil business only, and for which
the jury will be summoned from the vicinage,
will be held, commencing on Tuesday, the 18th
of November next