The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-12-22
WITH HIS GOOD NAME
Unstained and INSPECTED Judge Geo.
F. GOber Goes Back Home.
from Atlanta Constitution. I


Judge George Gober has been exoners
ated before the bar of the Georgia legisla-
ture just as the people OF Georgia knew he
would be; just as he deserved to be.
de- has been tried before the highest tri
bual of state and with unstained honor and
unspotted character is sent back to his seat
on the bench Of the Blue Ridge circuit to
continue the honorable discharge of his
duty to the state in enforcing the laws of
the commonwealth.
1t is total exoneraton. There is no
mincing of words in the way the house
passed the resolution to free Judge Gober
from the charges of guilt that have been
brought against him.
Here is the resolution, and it is the Just
complete vindication of Judge Gober that
his friends have always expected him to
receive when the facts in the case were all
known and the situation made clear:
Whereas, Messrs. W. c. Glenn and c.
D. Maddox submitted memorial to the
general assembly at the present session
containing charges which seriously reflect
ed upon the honesty, uprightness and
official character of Hon. George F. Gober,
Judge of the Blue Ridge circuit, and
Whereas, at Judge Gober's instance and
request, joint committee of the senate
and house we're appointed to investigate
the truth of said charges, and
I Whereas, after patient and laborous
investigation said committee have found
in favor Of Judge Gober;
Therefore, be it
Resolved by the hoase That the said re-
port be- and the same is hereby adopted,
and the Hon. George F. Gober judge of
the Blue Ridge circuit be, and he is hereby
fully and completely exonerated from
said charges.
The report of the investigating commits
tee was made the special order of the
morning session of the hpuse and the de-
bate began on it as soon as the journal had
been read
Judge Hall. of Spalding, offered the reso-
luton quoted above for the exoneration of
the judge.
He made a speech on the matter declar>
ing it to be the duty OF the house to pass.
the resolution at once and allow Judge
Gober to go home with no stain upon his
character, as he deserved and not to hold
these charges over him from now until the
next session of the general assembly.
Major Bacon closed his remarks with an
earnest appeal to the house to think seri>
ously Of the humiliating situation before
Judge Gober and to free him from these
charges without any delay. He said that
there was never case in which Judge OF
the superior court OF the state of Georgia
had been subjected so needlessly to such
humiliation. 1t was something unheard
of for judge to be brought to such place
over an alteration in court house among
lawyers with such things happening every
day in the year. IT was a pitiful spectacle
for judge to be held up before the criti>
cising eye of curious spectators and cross
questioned by lawyers, and oversworn by
the meanest convicts sent to the peniten-
tiary by the same judge while. performing
the duties he owed to his state while ems
forcing the law. 1t was sad sight, in.
deed, when in the face of the facts in the
case there had been nothing done by the
judge to merit the slightest criticism by
those who thoroughly understand the law