Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-29
YESTERDAY IN THE COURTS
Gaming Cases Today in Police Court-Rou-
 tine Matters and Convictions

Yesterday was very dull with the tri- bunals. Very little of interest happened in any of the courts. Judge Greene of the criminal court has been kept busy with the non-capital felony docket and has not yet rendered a decision in the cases against the pool room operators which were recently appealed to the criminal court from the inferior criminal court. The following convictions were had yesterday in the criminal court.
 James McMurray, burglary and grand larceny; guilty.
 Jim Williams, grand larceny; guilty Charley George, forgery; guilty
 Laura Bennett, grand larceny; guilty. Ed Reese and Nancy Carrol, two eases of burglary and grand larceny; guilty Will Hurd, burglary and grand lar ceny; guilty.
 Henry Penny, grand larceny; guilty.
 Circuit Court
 The case of Lydia Hales vs. Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Rail- road company, which has been on trial for several days, has not yet gone to the jury. The examination of witnesses is still in progress.
 City Court.
 Squire Turner has filed bill for di- vorce from Ella Turner, alleging adul- tery.
 Mary A. Smith vs Aaron Smith ct all This is a bill in equity by which the com plainapt seeks to have certain deeds exc cuted by her late husband set aside on the alleged ground of want of considera- tion, unsound mind of H. G. Smith, her husband, at the time the deed was exc cuted. The complainant further ayers that her own signature to the deed was a C Q n f a of a.te.
 Marriage License.
 Bernard Robertson Guest and Miss Eliza Laurens Chisolm.
 Real Estate Transfers.
 c. r. Brown and wife to M. P. Dantz- heimer, lot in Woodlawn composed of parts of lots 6, and s, block ?; $115.
 w. J. Vann and wife to Nathan Gold stein, south half of lot g. w. J. Vann's plat of Belleview; $50.
 John McCarty and wife to Francis J. Pelzer, lot at Avenue B and Nineteenth street: $975.
 J. w. Minor and J. F. Rogers to F. B. I.oyne, lot s, block 5, Walker Land com pany; s125.
 H. F. Weller to II. Simons, lots 8. g and 10, block 146, Third avenue, south; $45OO.
 Inferior Criminal Court.
 The cases against the luckless forty four" who were arrested by the police early last Sunday morning, were con- tinued yesterday until today. A large crowd was present at the inferior crimi- nal court yesterday morning and eonsid- erable disappointment was manifested when the continuance was announced Attorneys R. H. Lowe and Dan Greene appeared for the defendants ands City Attorney Evans for the city. The police on the one hand will try to prove that a hot game of craps was going on, and the defendants on the other hand will prob ably insist that t,1, police saw nothing of a criminating nature.
 Other cases were disposed of as fol- lows
 Bob Harris, fighting in the city limits; $4. s
 Tom Taylor, assault and battery on Dott Vernon; $5.
 Tom Taylor same; S5.
 Will Austin, carrying concealed weap- ons, pistol; $50.
 Jim Roebuck, disorderly conduct; $4. Charley Lowe, disorderly conduct; $4. Anderson McCrary, violating section 622 of city code; $5 and costs.
 John Jefferson. assault with a weapon on Henry Beedles; $15 and costs and twenty days extra.
 Arthur Freeman. violating section 369 of the city code; s2
 George Bright, larceny of one pair of shoes from the store house of Henry Beedles: $25 and costs and thirty days extra on the streets