The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-02-04
NOT GUILTY!
That is What the Jury Said in the
Case Of West Virginia vs..
Edward Murphey
CHARGED WITH PERJURY.
Ending Of a Trial That Interested
the General Public.
1T is A POPULAR VERDICT.
Every One Heartily Approves and
Endorses It.
FULL AND COMPLETE REPORT

- TIlsL AND VUMILElE hEIVhI
By Sworn Expert stsnographsr- All the Evidence
and Important Happenings Exported as They
We're Dropped in the Court Room An Able and
Intelligent Jury Aoquit Edward Murphy.
b Following is the stenographic re-.
port, to-wit:
STATE OF WEST VA. VS.. EDWARD
MURPHY. In the Circuit Court for
Berkeley County. Judge n. II. Faux
ner Presiding. Trial by Jury.
y. $. @. PITZER, for the state.
r. VERNON ALEfs and " X. CLIFFORD
For the Defendant. Ill
Following are,ths addresses Of the
counsel before the Court and jury:
Address to the Jury BY q. s. G. Pit
zer, Esq, States Attorney.
May it please the Court, and Gentle
man ofthe Jury: You have already been
sitting here in this jury box now well
on to three hours, and have no doubt
that you have from the evidence in
this case, to some extent, fixed within
your minds what has been proven, and
what has net been proven and also the
nature of the offense with which the
prisoner stands charged. ] don't de-
sire to keep you here any longer than
is absolutely necessary to present the
case in aclear and lucid manner. There
lis but one question before You, Gen
tlemen Of the Jury, a simple, PLAIN and
practical question, that question is,
whether or not the prisoner at the bar
here, Edward Murphy, did or did not
commit the crime Of perjury in the ties
timony which he gave to the Grand
Jury on the 18th day Of last Septem-
Der upon the question involved in the
point in regards to the indictment
which was then before the Grand Jury,
seeking to,implicate Mr.. Evans in aid
ing and abetting to the crime alleged
if crime it was, by which James G.
Daley was shot on Mr. Evans ground,
and'I want this Jury to bear the fact
distinctly in mind, You are not here,
Gentleman Of the Jury, to try any
other issue that the defense may seek
to drag into this case either from the
evidence which the Court has ruled out
| or from their own arguments. Now
then, as plain and sensible men, you
from this evidence can decide, Gentle
menSf the jury, whether when this
man, Murphy, went before that Grand
Jary and testified that he saw Cornell
ius Veney receive a pistol from the
hands Of Mr.. Geo. F. Evans, whether
or not he did receive that pistol and
whether or not Mr.. George F Evans
did give it to him with the language
used with reference to shooting Of any
Snowman, with an oath, that might see
proper to cross his premises. The evi-
dence is plain Mr.. Evans is the man
who is supposed to have given the re-
yolver, The State places him on the
stand, subjects him to rigid exami
nation, and discrimination from the
counsel for the defense, and yet under
it all he swerves not, but testifes TO
you, Gentlemen of the Jury, that he
positively did not give that revolver
to Cornelius Veney on the morning as
charged BY Edwaad Murphy; that he
did not see that revolver, Gentlemen
Of the Jury, prior 70 that time within
the space Of two months; that he did
not see it on the day when it was said
to have been given to Cornelius Veney
and that he has not seen the re-
Ivolver since,
If he did not see the revolver he did
not give it to Yeney, If he did not
have it, then this man Murphey when
Ire went before the Grand Jury Of this
County and swo:e\to that fact, ! grant
whether he believed it at the time Or
not, he swore to something that did
not exist, not having existed and
therefore he swore falsely, he swore
willfully, Gentlemen Of the Jury, I'M
der the instruction Of this Court. Did
lie use the language about trespassers
on this property, that this man Mnr,
phey says he usedg He says not.