The Cecil Whig., 1885-12-19
The December Court.
MONDAY,

Court met at 9:30 a. m., Judge Stump
oa the beueh. The September Term
was called and there being no business
Of that Term, it was adjourned and
the December Term called. The follow
ing is the list of the Grand Jury: II. &
| Nesbitt, Foreman; Wm. T. Lee: John
Boyd; Vim. Il. Holt; Mnchel w. Fulton:
IL. IL. Brady; IL. 5. Cochran; j. J.
| Wright; VIM. Hess; Robert ]. Grow:
Charles McDouga,; John J. Williams;
VIM. Il. Z. Hayes James IIartnet, f. T.
| Brown, B. +. Thomas, VIM. \. Miller,
f, G. Lynch, H. d. BudI, 7. p. Wander
griit, J. l.. Ward and Joseph Steel. The
| following is a list Of the petit jury: VIM.
d. bradford, J Jhn w. Sherman. II. c.
Lowe, Tobias Rudolph, Jos. E. Rey-
no!ds, Samuel Hasson, Benz B. Price,
John B. Graham, Jos. +. Touchstone,
Peter liartenstine, BENZ. p. Hanson,
George DeGrickson, John I. Dewitt,
| David McCAllister, John L. Moore, BENZ.
f. Chambers, Alfred Ford, James 3.
| Mccoy, Stanford Dawberry, n. I. Lack
land, John L. Fursersou, George w.
Denny, George Ricketts,, G D. Maxwell
! Albert Price. The usual call of the
docket was made. \ large number OF
cases are marked for trial on the civil
list and the term promises to be long
one.
TT-ISDAV
Court met at 10 clock. The case of
| Isaac Maci,inson VS.. State of Maryland
was put on trial. c. G. Crothers and
! W. S. Evans for Mackinson. Daniel
| Bratton, States Attorney, r. c. Thack-
cry and Geo. y. Blake for State. This
was all appeal from a judgment of Isaac
! DeFoId Justice of the Peace of North
East in which he found Mackinson guilty
of selling whi3key to VIM. Biddle about
| November 9S last. At the trial before
Justice DrFord, Biddle swore that lie
had bongbt whiskey of Mackinson but in
the trial at court he swore that he
bought ginger and never bought whiskey
| Verdict not guilty. Same VS.. same. Ap-
peal from same justice finding Mackin-
son guilty of selling whiskey to David
Street. Same counsel Street swore in
court that he bought ginger and never
bought whiskey. Verdict not guilty.
Same VS.. same. Appeal from decision of
same justice finding Mackinson gully of
selling whiskoy to Warren Meeking.
Same counsel. Iieeking swore in court
that he bought ginger and never bought
whiSkey. Verdict not guilty The case
of CouSidne VS.. McFey, and same VS..
Smithson. Appeals from a Judgment
of Esquire Abrahams We're then taken
up. Writ Tor appellant. Jones & Haines
for appellee. The eases are to recover
the value Of Somo gunpowder and dyna-
mite. In these cases the jury under in
strdctinus from the court rendered YER
diets in favor of the appellees. The case
| of Strout administrators of Strout VS.
| The c. p. d. r. r., on the trial docket
was taken up and jury enpaneled.
Constable and Warburton for plaintiff
Jones & ilaincs and Alex. Evans for de.
| feud mt.
THURSDAY-FRIDAY.
On Wednesday William Bidde and
Howard Meekins, of North East, in this
county, were presented for perjury by
the grand iury for having, as is alleged
sworn t. statements entiraly different
/
b9iore Justice DeFord OF North East,
a week ot two since, and before the
court Tuesday in the trial of certain
local option cases which were brought
to court on appeal from the Judgment OF
the Justice. Tuesday night Biddle and
| Meekins were arrested on a bench war
| rant and are now in Jail. Benjamin
Davenport was Indicted Wednesday for
giving away whiskey in Chesapeake City
on the day of the election i'll November
! last. The case of Theodore 5. Stroud,
administrator Sarah r. Stroud, VS.. the
| Columbia and PoIt Deposit railroad
company foi 81 800 damages for build
! ING i'll Port Deposit, which was burned
| by fire caused by sparks from defend
ants locomotives in 1SS3, occupied the
court Wednesday,, and was not concluded.
! The tim" OF the court was taken up on
| Thursday with hearing the report of the
grand Jury. They found Ii present
nents and il Urue bills of indictment;
Z foG violation of the Local Option law, ,
for perjury, and for assault. The iail
and aims house were reported in good
/ condition. The witnesses were lis
charged until the 4th day of January
next. On Friday the court was again oeeu-
pied with the case of Stroud VS.. the Col
umbia X Port Deposit r. r. 1t is ex-
pected that court will adjourn on We'd