The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1878-07-06
Sentences.

tuc iOlluW lily
Joseph and Baptiste LaAeur,
two Brothers, charged with as
sault with attempt to kill Alva
Smith, Seven years each in the
penitenti&ry:
Isaac Robertson charged with
robbery fourteen years in the pen
itentiary
Robert Elliot, charged with
petty larceny; oneyear i'll the pen
itentiary
Aimee Perkins charged with
assault and battery, thirty dollars
fine or three months in the Par
;sh prison
Obed Payne, charged with pet
ty larceny, Two years in the pen
itentiary.
Lewis Watkins, charged with
assault with attempt to tkill, fine
twenty dollars Or two months in
Parish prison:
Peter Smith, charged with pet
ty larceny, two years in the pen
itentiary:
His honor was liberal with the
prisoners, giving each one all that
the law allowed him.
In connection with one of these
decisions in which a prisoner
pleaded intoxication as an excuse
the Judge remarked that drunken
ness was no excuse for crime. and
that in his opinion, a man who
got drunk and committed a crime
should have his punishment doub-
led.
The absence of none of these
convicts will be senslbIy felt in
this community as much as will
that Of Obed Payne.
Hen roosts, corn cribs, &c will
feel relieved for two years to come.
Punishments generally always
come upon the wicked. 1t has
been slow catching up with this
notorious vagabond and thief,
but it has caught him. Obed and
his compeers will do the State
some service in working Oh the
Pacific Railroad which needs the
brawny muscle of such men as
they are.
In the case of Eliza Washing
ton charged with Larceny, the
Judge in consideration Of the fact
that the convicted woman bad
paid all costs OF the court and
jaiiors fees, and in the further
fact of her having an infant child
let her off with five days in the
Parish Jail.
AT the late Term of the Dis
trict Court d case was decided
that has .been before the Courts
for over n year. It will be remem-
bered that the Parish School
Board under the Kellogg regime
employed one of their number at
a salary Of $4,000 per month as
Inspector of Schools, Mr.. Mum
ford Mccoy. When Crosier, the
Tax Collector of chat golden era,
was called upon to disgorge some
three orfour thousand dollars OF
the School Fund which he had de
posted so deeply into his pant;-
looms pockets that it was difficult
10 reach them, he drew five war.
rants of $4,000 each in favor of
MuMlord Mccoy for salary as
school inspector five months al.
ter schools had absolutely closed.
Mccoy endorsed the warrants and
Langman Treasurer paid them.
Suit was entered against this
trio before the District Court
whose judge decided that he had
no jurisdiction. 1t then was enter
Ell in the Parish Court and from
the decision of that court it was
appealed to the District Court.
Judge Beattie decided that these
mel had no right to SO anpropri-
ate any such funds to one oftheir
own number, which not only con
dennis them to reimburse said
sans with all costs, but renders
them liable for several hundred
dollars paid TO McOoy previous to
this last transaction.
-Some good results will be de
rived from the late session Of the
Court.
One OF them is, that persons
disposed to Communism to
such an extent as to attempt to
appropriate other peoples prsper
ty for their own use will learn
that Judge Beattie is ii merciful
and lenient Judge, aud gives
them all the time in the peniten,
which a generous law al
lows them.
An other is, that persons who
are in the habit Of going bonds
any malefactor or vagabond
will be brought up in q short turn
aud be reminded of Ben Frank
'intS adage that while music is