San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-12-05
GRAND JURY DISCHARGED.
Manchaca Has Seventeen Years to
Serve-Cther News.


The following was handed to Judge
Noonan this morning and read by the dis
trict clerk in court:
ITO the Hon. George Fl. Noonan, Dis
trict Judge of the Thirty-seventh Judi
cial District: Dear Sir-1Our grand jury,
impaneled and sworn for the October
term, 1893 beg leave to report that they
have been in session thirty eight days.
and ont of the mass of information ana
affidaVitS filed before them. have found
433 true bills, same being 129 fell
onieS and 304 miSdemeanOrS. We Inspected
the county Jail and found, considering
the crowded condition, there being al
present 11S inmates. everything in good
order and condition and the food ample
and well prepared. There being no other
business before us, we ask Your Honor to
discharge us. CHARLES HUGO,
Foreman"
\ Judge Noonan complied with the re-
quest and the grand jury was discharged.
GARZA ON TRIAL.
Jesus Cara. charged with theft over
$50, was released on bail in the sum OF
$500 Yesterday afternoon. His was the
first case called for trial this morning.
flis attorney, Mack Anderson, made
motion for continuance, but the motion
was overrued and the case went 10 tria!
at 80 O'Clock Cara is charged with
stealing 900 pounds OF seed cotton. be-
longing to A. c. Livingstone. on Septem-
Der Il last, valued at S25, and sack val.
ned at 80 cents.
HE GOES FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS
The first case taken up in the Thirty
seventh District court yesterday AFTER
noon was that against MeIquir.s Man
chacca. charged with perjury. The case
arose from false evidence he gave in his
recent trial for attempt TO rape the little
siX-year old Helen Rahm. for which Of
fence he was convicted and given the
limit. seven years, in the penitentiary
The jury in yesterdays trial remained
out about ten minutes and returned
verdict of guilty. He was given ten years
in the penitentiary, the limit, for that Of
fence, making total of seventeen years
Of prison life for Manchacca, which he
will not survive. Judge NOonan passed
the sentence shortly after the conviction.
TO THE PENITENTIARY.
The following prisoners will be taken
to Huntsville today to serve the Senten-
ces passed upon the by Judge N0ooan
during the present term OF court: NJ. X.
Holt, two years; Thomas Summers, TWO
wears: John Cavanaugh, two years: AIecK
Thompson. seven years; Henry Schbach,
two years; Julian CervanteS, two years:
Henry Scott, two years: Melquires Man
chaca, seventeen years, and ROmaldo
Spitea. twenty one years.
JURY COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED.
Messrs w. NJ. Locke, X. c. Norton and
John Sherer were appointed jury com
miSsiOnerS in the Thirty seventh District
court this morning to select sixteen graha
Jurors and forty petit jurors for nine
weeks, beginning the second week OF
the December term.
WEDDING BELLS.
The county clerk issued marriage IL
cenSeS as follows Yesterday afternoon:
Henry Edwards and Maggie TipDin.
Henry DiCkIdan and Bertha Pfeitter.
Arthur G. Volbert and Wally Muench.
Louis 4. Abbott and Martha l.. Wood
hull.
COURT NEWS NOTES.
Henry Scott got two years for theft
from the person.
NJ. p. Holt. charged with theft over
500, was given two years in the pehlten-
tiary yesterday afternoon.
Judgment for plaintiff was rendered in
the divorce suit of Maggie HightOwer
against John Hightower yesterday after
noon.
The \. Il. Frank company filed suit
for debt of s3S4.9S against Luis Moglia in
the Thirty seventh District court this
morning.
In the suit on promiSsory note OF the
Parrott- Andrews company against J. K.
Hooper, Judgment was rendered Oy pain
tiff this morning.
Christian Keil filed a suit in the Thirty
seventh District court this afternoon
against Mrs. Winnefred Gagen, on prom
issory note in the sum of $1,000.
G. H. Schneider filed suit against JnO.
p. Campbell and Sam WorShauer in the
Thirty seventh District court yesterday
afternoon to enjoin them from selling lots
and in block 5. on the corner Of Devine
aud South Presa streets.
John S. Stewart, formerly bill clerk in
the international and Great Northern
freight office, and Captain Charles +
Fe8Ty, an old resident Of this city, were
found guilty Of insanity in the Probate
court yesterday afternoon and ordered
sent TO the asylum.