Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1882-04-13
District Court.

Thursday State VS.. Wiley
Holiday, colored, guilty Of ag-
gravated assault and battery;
guilty and punishment assessed
at two years Imprisonment in
the county Jail. 1t is a mooted
question whether-if the SEN
tence is carried out-the prison.
err or the tax payers will be the
most severely punished.
The grand jury brought in
nine indictments, one against
sheriff J. H. Hutchinson for
negligently permitting A. D.
Gee, prisoner charged with
felony to escape and another
against J. NJ. Carlisle, constable
Of Precinct No. ,, for the same
ofense in permitting McDer-
mott, a prisoner charged with
felony, to escape.
Saturday-State VS.. Johnson
and Nelson Parker, bothscolor-
ed, indicted jointly for assault
with intent to murder. Sever
ancc granted, both found gull
ty Of simple assault and fined
SIS and costs each.
The grand jury came into
court bringing twenty-five new
indictments, making in all, six
ty-four indictments for the
term. The jury was in session
twenty days in all. Having no
further business before them
they were by the court dis
charged for the term.
State VS.. Wiley Holiday;
motion for new trial granted.
The defendant was, a day or
two ago, convicted and sent
enced to two years in the coun-
tyjail.
Monday.-Statc VS.. John Will
liains, colored, stealing three
horses, plead guilty and given
seven years in the penitentiary,
He had already been convicted
of the same offence, but on ap-
peal the case was reversed.
State VS.. John Traylor, assault
with intent to murder; not
guilty.
State VS.. Ed. Bouldin, colored
assault with intent to murder;
not guilty.
Thursday.-State VS.. Enoch
Woodward, colored, commit
ting rape on a colored girl,
guilty; twenty-five years in the
penitentiary. The parties lived
in the neighborhood of Whit
man. The case occupied the
court all day, the jury rendering
their verdict after dark.
Wednesday.-State VS.. Lewis
Babb, colored, murder, verdict
guilty of murder in the second |
degree and assessed his punish |
ment at fifty years in the peni-
Tertiary. When the verdict was
the prisoner who is
a stout six-footer, was, ap-
perently, completely overcome
with grief, or remorse, or croco-
die tears and bull-frog voice,
for he began believing like a
big calf IN distress and he kept
up his walls and means, occa-
sionally calling on the Lord,
until he was placed in the coun-
ty Jail, it taking too stout men
to keep him on his feet. As
soon as he was inside of the
jail his emotion took different
chute and he uncorked his ours
ing batteries, swearing at every
thing in a sort of dilatory and
general way. The prisoner is
about 80 or IS years of age
and was convicted of the muir
der of Milton McGown, a negro
bay about 20 years of age, near
Long Point, in this county in
August 1879. He was convict
ed and his penalty assessed at
fifty years in the penitentiary;
he appealed and the Appellate
court reversed the dicission on
the ground of an erroneous
charge of the court. His first
trial was before Judge Broad
dus. He then give bail and
has been at liberty for nearly
two years and no doubt thought
that nothing would be done
with him.
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