Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-03
CIRCUIT COURT.


Wednesday of last week, by the disposition
Of the following cases.
State vs.. Rev. Robert Lindsay, colored !;
uniting in bonds of matrimony persons of diff:
ferent race. Continued
State VS.. Toney Bennett, colored; house.
breaking. Prosecutor, Charles Crosby, color
ed. Verdict, guilty.
State VS.. George Childers, colored; bur.
glary. Prosecutor, John Smith, colored
Verdict, guilty.
State VS.. j. l.. Williams knowingly re-
turning land for taxation in the name of
person not the legal owner. Prosecutor, A.
F. Love. The defendant had returned in his
own name for taxation land belonging to his
wife. In the case, after the trial had COM
menced, mol. pros. was entered.
State VS.. Aaron Thompson, colored as.
sault with intent to kill. Prosecutor, Matilda
Thompson. Verdict, guilty.
State vs.. Lewis Brum6eld, colored house.
breaking and larceny. Prosecutor, Maria
johnson, colored. Verdict, guilty.
Sentences were then passed by the Court,
rs follows:
VIM. Harris, Catawba Indian; convicted
at last term of assault and battery with in.
tent to kill. Sealed sentence left by Judge
Aldrich, that the defendant be confined in
The county Jail for period Of thirty days.
Robert Biggers, colored lad; rocking rail
road train. The father of the defendant hav-
ing offered to properly chastise the offender in
the presence of the prosecutor, before legal
proceedings were commenced, and it having
been intimated to the Court that he still pro-
posed to inflict suitable punishment with the
rod, the sentence of the Court was that if
such chastisement be duly administered in
presence of the sheriff, then the defendant to
be discharged; but in case of failure by the
father so to punish the boy, that the defend
ant be committed to solitary confinement on
alternate days in the county Jail, for period
of two months. (The boy was hogged by
his father, pursuant to the first proposition of
the sentence.)
Aaron Thompson, colored; assault and
battery whipping his wife. Sentenced to
four months in the county JAIL.
Lewis Brum6eld, colored housebreaking
and larceny. Sentenced to hard labor in the
penitentiary for one year.
Peyton Berry, colored; larceny of hog.
Sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
John Crawford, colored, and Margaret
Dancy, white; miscegeneration. Each. sen.
fenced to the penitentiary for the period of
one year the 6rst.named, at hard labor, and
Margaret Dancy to labor suited to her sex
and constitution.
Charles Childers. colored housebreaking.
Sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of
his natural life
Toney Bennett, colored; housebreaking.
Sentenced to the penitentiary for the term Of
his natural life.
REPORT OF THE GRAND JURY.
The report of the grand jury was also made
on Wednesday, as follows:
SOUTH CARoLINA-YoRK COUNTY. !
COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS,
October Term, 1881.
10 has Honor B. C. PRESLEY, the presiding
Judge: The grand jury of said county and
State, for final presentment at this term of
the Court, report unto your Honor that
AS to the Poor house and farm, they found
upon their visit, that three-hOrse farm had
been cultivated, and the superintendent has for
this years crop, about 250 bushels Of corn and
five bales of cotton, and enough fodder, hay,
pea-vines, &c., to feed the stock upon during
the ensuing year. Part of the farm was rent
ell out but the liens for rent not having been
recorded, the entire rent will not be realized.
The stock OH the farm consists of three good
mules and three good mich COWS, in good con-
dtion. There are also five hogs over one year
Old, fit to be killed this winter, besides other
hogs.
The grand jury found one Sallie Enloe, a
white woman, in the Poor house and recon-
mend that she be discharged thereirom as soon
as her condition will permit. She is now
pregnant and nearing the time of her delivery.
The account she gives of herself is, that she
was sent there by VIM. Z. Kell, in his buggy,
and that the buggy was driven by colored
man. who carried her to and in front OF the
Poor house, and put her out and left her there.
She appears to be about twenty years OF age,
and in the matter of her lying-in, if not for
the future support of the child, with which
she is pregnant, has become charge upon the
county.
The inmates of the Poor house are % in
number: males 7; female, IS white 10; color
ed, II.
As to the county Jail, the grand jury report
the condition of the Jail and it's apartments,
and the treatment of the prisoners therein, as
satisfactory. They recommend, however, the
immediate repair of the fence enclosing the
Jail yard. The Jail lies Immediately on the
public road and the dogs which the Sheriff
has found it advisable to keep there, are
source of some annoyance to citizens passing |
The jail, because of the condition of the fence.
AS to the roads and bridges generally, the
grand jury cannot report these, especially the
'oads, as in good condition. The high brakes
IN the roads need attention, and the county
should have the roads worked
before the winter sets in.
AS to the Trial Justices, the grand jury find,
n comparing the books of these officers, quite
diversity of charges made by the different
Trial Justices fOrapparently the same service;
md, without rejecting upon the several Trial
Justices, feel constrained to recommend that
;he matter Of all examination of their books,