Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1884-11-06
LINCOLN LINCOLN COUNTY. N M, NOVEMBER g. 1884
COURT CULLIN GS.

We have one or two lawyers who
only practice in court about every
other year.
In squable between two Of our
lawyers the client is pretty sure to
be used up first.
A man in Missouri has seventeen
bullet holes in his head and yet his
brain is uninjured. What u capital
juryman he would make on muir
der trial.
Court for the last ten days has
been III session on an average ust
three hours and fifteen minutes per
day. But then the people have to
foot the bill.
Ten minutes after the final adj
journment there was a regular STAN
peds up and down the valley, and
in less than an hour the town looked
like a deserted cow-camp after the
roundup.
The defense of Col. Geo. I. Beall
in the case of the prisoner Aragon
was pronounced the best ever made
in a Lincoln court. Col. Beall was
engaged in every important case of
the term.
Justice in New Mexico is delt out
on the Arkansas plan. 1t is easy
enough to convict horse or cattle
thief, but let man commit murder
two juries will hang for his convic-
ton and third will turn him loose.
Hereafter we suggest that i'll
drawing jury no baldheaded men
be chosen, as the ease with which
the main points of case penetate
their craniums utterly units them
to render the kind of verdict sought.
What with recriminations, bick-
erings and chinnings among the
attorneys and rappings and sclodings
from the judge a Lincoln court room
presents show about as entertain
ing as a cage of monkeys turned
loose with toothless old lioness.
Usually cases have to be carried
up to a higher court for a reversal,
but the Third District has Il Judge
who reverses his own discision.
| What Judge Bristo!'s opinion is one
day, has nothing to do with his de-
cision the next. a little buzzing by
a Santa Fe lawyer during recess has
very potent bearing on case
sometimes.
a witness in court is entitled to a
fee of fifty cents per day for his ser
vice, which is paid in county war
rents, and the clerk is allowed by
law to charge fifty-cents for making
out the certificate by which he draws
his pay. Allowing for the deprccia-
ton in warrents, this leaves him in
debt twelve and u half cents outside
of his board bill.
Clements says he loaned grand
iuryman his mattress and blanket
and slept on pile of hay, and when
the jury got through their work
the fellow took up his bed and skip
ped. He notifies the fellow to
bring his bedding back the next
term of court or run the risk OF
having to hang himself up on a
barbed wire fence for want of better
sleeping arrangements,
Bald heads do not assume that air
of homelike and comtented famil-
iarity on Lincoln county Jury
bench that they do in the front
chairs of a variety show. Hezekiah
Biggs, whose head takes on all the
polished smoothness Of a freshly
hatched billiard ball was bounced
off every jury during this term Of
court Oh, Hesekiah! A bald head
ed prophet hath two much honor and
good common sense to serve the
purposes of the law sharp in his own
country.
A prominent lawyer from a dis.
tance whe has an extensive practice
in our court got into little case in
chambers with some Of our profess
iQnal men which occupied his atten-
tion during almost the entire term
to the great prejudice Of his clients
in open court. The case involved q
shuttle and poker. This was "seen'
by one of our own attorneys who
took a $25 fee in advance, where S3C
was the amount in dispute, and when
the case was called, had filled him.
self so full of Jurisprudence that he
could not get inside the courthouse
door.
4! The board appointed to select
our jurors hereafter would save the
county considerable money if they
would go around and measure the hats
of the persons to be drawn and see
that no one be chosen who wear:
anything larger than number five
or is acquainted with anything ol