The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1876-03-23
4 Judging the Judges.

Mackoy, but copies of tho charges |
against him were placed upon the
desks OF the membcrs.
a1MtsDB THE CHARGES
arc as follows;
1. Prostituting tho judicial office in
apolitical conventions for personal ends,
ana despecially at a convention ofthe
Republican party held at Chester, S!
c., in the summer or fall of 1874, by
throatcningto sond persons who op
posed his will to Jail.
q Prostitoting the judicial offfco at
York at the last spring torn by re-
viving prosecutions against certain
persons known as Ku Klux, for the
'paFposo of enriching his nophow, Ar
thur Mickey, by forcing money
VCoRtribution from said persons, and
by an, order Of court corruptly por-
hitting and authorizing such COM
;Tpromise.
10 3, ProstituLing tho judicial Office by
borrowing money from officers of the
Ccoprt and county officers in the sixth
Ujudicial circuit, without any ability or
.iatention to repay the same, and by
1.-The terror of his official power pro-
Goluding tho said officers from demand
-ing, payment.
q. Tyrannically threatening to sond
Col. w. A. Walker, member Of the
bar at Chester, to Jail, without any
caqso and without authority so to do
81 Tyrannically threatening grand
jury of the Court Of Sessions for Lan-
S,easter County, at tho February term,
;,&870, dismissing them from their du
ssiess and usurping tho authority alone
possessed by that body.
.oYOorluptly and tyrannicaliy caus.
ingthgprosecution of Dublin j. Walk
or, Senator in tho General Assembly
from Chester county, from personal
e3mity, and, in effect, conducting the
prosecution and procuring convic-
tion by intimidating and soducng tho
jurlaJD
7. Corruptly and tyrannicaly pros
scouting b. q. Cannon, at Chester,
January term, and sending him for
twelve months TO the Pontcntiary,
from personal enmity.
8. Corruptly procuring tho proscs
cution of J ohm Lilly, in the Court of
Sessions for Chester county, upon a,
charge OF larceny and breach OF trust,
at the September term, 1872; having
himself drawn the affidavit before
the trial justice, and afterwards tried
the case as judge of the Court of Sos
sions
9. CorruptIy causing the arragn-
mont, trial and conviction of John
Uilly; at Chester, on tho - day of
February 1876, for grand larceny,
before court and jury which had no
loyal authority to either sit or try his
case. 20
80. Corrpptly procuring the prose-
odtion Of Pleasant Nowland, in the
county of Chestor, on tho 25th of
February, for conspiracy to dctraud
the State of South Carolina in con.
9eetiena with certain teachcrs' pay
certificates of that county, with intent
to screen his brothor>in-law, f. B.
Lloyd School Commissioners for Chos-
ter county, from prosecution for like
ofFonco. ''
h'li. CorruptIy visiting tho county
jail OF Chester county, and having
secret interview with b. t. Mitchell,
n convicted fclon awaiting sentence,
with intont TO screen his brothor>n-
law, f. b. Lloyd, School Commission.
er, from prosecution.
p InhumanIy permitting the OK
echt'on of stephen Young for murder
at Chester cn the 28th February, 1876, |
he having been tried before tho Court
of Sessions for Chester County, at
January term, 1876, whom, before
said execution, he was notified that
tbejur which tried him was wholly
illegal.
IS. Corruptly ondcavoring to pro-
ctire n bribo Of two thousand dollore