The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1888-03-01
The Court nt sumter.

SUMTER, Feb 22-In consequence of
| today being Washington's birthday, the
Court Of Sessions nd diourncd last uight to
meet tomorrow morning.
The grand jury brought in yesterday the
| following true bills: David H. Bowen, ma
| licious mischief; David III. Bowen, Beni
II. Bowen, John e. Bowen and Belfast
Bowen, burglary and larceny; Charles
Williams, assault and battery with intent
to kill; Samuel Scrivcn, robbery and lar
| Ccny; Addison Wilson, burglary and lar.
ccny; Pcyton G. Bowman and Walter |.
Harby, murder; John Il. Kccls and Kin
chcon Pennington, murder; John II. Kccls,
assault and battery with intent to kill
assault and battery of Il high and aggra
vatcd nature, and carrying concealed wcap-
ons; Walter ]. Hardy, carrying concealed
weapons; Pcyton G. Bowman, carrying
concealed weapons; Walter |. uarby, as
Sauit ana battery with intent TO kill, as.
sault and battery of a high and aggravated
nature, and carrying concealed weapons;
PGyt0n G. Bowman, assault and battery of
a nigh and aggravated nature, assault and
battery with intent TO kill, and carrying
concealed weapons; PcvtOn c. Bowman
and Walter |. Hardy, same
IhG Court has appointed Monday next,
tnT ,nH Is'N Instant, to hear the trial Of Pey-
| murder. The trial Of Kccls and PcnHinT
ton Will follow directly upon it. No DIV
has been set for hearing the other cases con.
nectcd with the lIayncswOrth shooting
affair. The grand jury yesterday returned
mo bill against John Bowman, charged
with carrying concealed weapons. Special
to News and Courier
SUMTER, Feb. 23.--Thc cases against
tcyton &. Bowman and Walter |. Iiarby,
charGcd with assault and battery with in
| tent to XIII, and aggravated assault and
| battery, were called this afternoon, The
dc!cudanls were in court, represented by
| NicsSrS. Noises ~ Lee. This case is that
| of the second Bishopvillc shooting, in
which G. NJ. Barrett was wounded by
'cyt0n &. bowman. When the case was
called, the Hon. Marion Noise made a mo
ton on behalf Of the defence to have the
! case deferred until later day. on the
ground that counsel engaged in the case
WAS absent, and, further, that the defend.
| ants wcic to he tried on Monday for their
lives, and it would be unjust to them to
| harass them with lighter charges before
tne mann charge was heard. Mr. Noise
was ably seconded by Mr.. II. ID. Lee in or.
Suing The motion for postponement,
Solicitor Gilland and Attorney Gnncro,
Earle replied for the State, urging an i'm
mediate trial Of the cause.
The Court decided that It would grant u
poStpOncmcnt Of the case, as The defer /.
ants had only three days left in which to
| prepare Tor trial on the charge of murder,
and 1t did not propose to allow their time
| to be cncumhcrcd by their having to stand
tr'al during the three days on lighter
chArEtS. The Court, however, did not
| deny the right of the State to demand n
trlai OF the case before the murder case
was heard, and there is possibility that
ne case may be heard on Monday before
The murder case is called The case against
Henry Dennis for larceny from the South
crn Express Company was taken up late
this afternoon.