National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-04-27
THE COURTS.
Supreme Court Of the Uaitsd States.

WEDNESDAY,. April %. 1875.
ss IN motion OF Mr.. Clinton Rice, 7. B. Dalton,
ISL 81 west Point, Mississippi was admitted 70
PtSetce as an attorney and counselor Of this court
IN motion OF Mr.. e. q. Lapham, Nathaniel o..
a.ot, esq, OF Albany, N. Y, was admitted to
court.
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These causes were argued y Mr. Mat: Il. Car:
appellants and plaintiffs in error, and by Mr.
J. P: Casey, for defendant in error in No, us.
Adjourned until tomorrow at u O'clock
Court in General Term.
In order to allow the Criminal Court, Judge
ness on hand, and which is being transacted expe-
ditiously, the Court in General Term will not
other week. Il 1 anticipated that By the expra
ton OF that time many Of the cases on the docket
VIII be disposed Of and the record pretty well
cleared up.
Criminal Court-Judge Macarthur.
MIR. Frank N.ward, Of Baltimore, was admitted
on motion Of Mr.. 7. A. Lambert, to the privileges
Of the bar.
WIN. S. Mitchell. assault on Hermann Schmidt.
IKE lower court, was ined 800, or Sentenced tn
sixty days in jail. He has already served forty
days, and plead guilty Of the charge. The court
sentenced him to fine of 800, or twenty days in
Jail, which will finish out the original sentence.
George H. English and Elijah Williams, both
colored, larceny in picking the pocket of Emma
May, on Seventh street, on the 18th of February
last. This was an appeal case from the Police
Court, where the parties were sentenced to pay
fine of 500 six months in Jail. After the testi-
mOny was received, and the Government being
unable to present certain witnesses to prove the
completely Of English in the crime, abandoned the
case against him, and the Court directed the jury
TO render n verdict of acquittal.
In the case Of Williams the jury returned q
verdict Of guilty. Nine months in Jail.
Mr.. Newman, counsel on behalf of Patrick
Nulty, convicted of rape on Mrs. Anna Williams,
filed motion for q new trial.
Charles Triple. colOred, assault with intent to
commit rape on Matilda @. NOkes. The accused
is charged with on the 18th of last month making
an assault on a white child ten years of age, in
an alley on 1, between Seventh and Eighth
streets southeast, where he threw her down and
rayished her The evidence was UNIT for publiea-
His Honor thought II one Of the most shocking
cases in the annals of crime and had no eXtenuat-
ing circumstances. He sentenced Triple to twelve
Charles Greer, alias Green, charged with rape
on Virginia Washington, on whose trial the jury
disagreed, was admitted to bail in the sum Of
q, 900, Mr.. James Kelly becoming his bondsman.
false pretences in that he did falsely pretend to
]. w. Smith, Charles Stewart, Henry H. Dudley
and Dodge Darneille that he was agent for
Catharine johnson, and, through his representa-
The court said that he did not think case existed
as the money was not advanced on 4 false repre-
sentation. The token or deed was not set up in
the Indictment and he directed the jury to return
charged.
Samuel Benjamin, indicted for obtaining from
Eiseman Brothers, clOthiers an ulster coat valued
at SIC, under an order purported to have been
signed by MI J; Young, plead guilty; one year in
the Albany penitentiary.
The court then adjourned.