The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-16
COURTS TO TAKE A REST.
The DOCketS Being Cleared as Rapidly
as Possible.

Judge Fall1Rant and Solicitor General
Fraser Anxious for Chatham to Be
Made an Independent Circuit-Lem
Davis Counsel to Ask for Bail for
Him To-Day 49, Davis Sick in Jail.
Two Lawyers Make Their Maiden
Speeches Before Jury.
The June term of the superior court is
nearing its end. It is expected that the
criminal docket will be finished to-day
and tomorrow. Judge Falligant said
yesterday that the jury will be dis
7 charged by tomorrow. The court will
be held open for several days longer for
( the hearing of motions. Judge Falligant,
! Solicitor General Fraser and all the Off
| GERS Of the court are anxious TO finish up
work for the term, as the session during
the heated period has proven very trying.
| The Chatham court will then take rest
until the December term.
| Judge Falligant and Solicitor General
! Fraser will take the circuit in November.
| A good deal of business has accumulated
in the other counties of the circuit, and
it is doubtful if it can be finished up in
a month. 1t will probably be necessary
to trespass upon Chatham countys time
in order to clear up the business in
! the other counties. This furnishes argu-
ment in reinforcement of the recon-
| mendation made by the last grand jury
| that Chatham county be made a separate
circuit The grand jury of Liberty
| county also made similar recommenda-
| ton some time ago.
| ANXIOUS FOR DIVISION
T1dga E7a11irapt and C0licf+or Tapavol
| Fraser were asked how they regarded
! the recommendation of the grand Jury to
| make separate circuit of Chatham
| county. Both agreed that the recon-
mendation met with their hearty APP
| proval, and they are in hopes the next
| legislature will take steps accordingly
| The increasing legal business of Chatham
county, they said, demands that this
step be taken. Fulton county, Judge
| Falligant said, has two city courts and
| two superior courts for the transaction of
It's legal business, while Chatham county,
| with nearly as much legal business to
handle, has only one city court, and
shares its superior court with several
other counties. The session of the city
court will continue until the end of the
month, when it will take a recess.
DAVIS TRIAL GOES OVER.
| The case of Lemuel Davis, charged with
the murder of William Rawls, which was
| set for hearing yesterday, went over
until to-day Mr.. duBignon, Davis coun-
| sci, gave notice that he would apply for
bail for his client. Davis health is in
very precarious condition, and it is not
| believed that he can survive confinement
much longer. AS the state is not ready
! for trial, the case will have to 90 over
until the December term, which will ne
cessitate the confinement of Davis Tor at
| least three months longer, unless he is re-
| leased on bail.
MADE THEIR MAIDEN SPEECHES.
Two attorneys who have recently been
admitted 10 the bar made their maiden
| speeches before a jury yesterday.
| They were w. p. Hardee, Esq, and
| Joseph M. Dreyer, Esq. Both acquitted
| themselves in creditable manner, and it
was not their fault that both their clients
were convicted. MIR. Hardee appeared in
defense of Henry jackson, colored
| charged with burglary of the store of
John Mitchell, Colored. II was plain case
| against jackson. He was sentenced to
| five years in the peniteutiary Mr..
Dreyer appeared in defense Of Frank
! Sparkman, colored charged with larceny.
| he appeared in very fair way TO estab-
| lish his clients innocence until il was
shown by the solicitor general that two
of the witnesses for the defense had been
bribed by the prisoner to testify in his
AdNOLs lnlo uduC COnNlCblOn CeTldlu,
and Sparkman was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary Mr.. Dreyer
made good appeal for his client but in
the light of the evidence a conviction was
no surprise.
CAR-BREAKER CONVICTED.
Henry Boyd, colored, pleaded guilty to
breaking into a car of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway in June last,
and was sentenced to pay fine of $50 or
spend six months on the gang.
| In the case of Kate G. LAWN and others
versus James d. LAWN, executor, and
others, an order was granted allowing the
master until the first day of the next
term of the superior court in which to
| make a report
! An order was passed for the sale of the
| stock and fixtures of kiley & Massart's
saloon, at Broughton and Drayton streets,
! August %, to satisfy an execution levied
! by G.. Goldman q Co.
| W. j. Miscally, Jr, was appointed a
commercial notary public by Judge FCll-
CANT.
| Nothing was done in the city court, all
the cases going over until to-day.
|