The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-06-03
COURT.

srapher. After the usual openln&
preliminaries His Honor delivered
his charge to the grand jury and TIC
Solicitor gave out the following bli:S
The State vs. Ed Meyers and John
White, assault and battery Of a ls:}ss.
and aggravated nature.
The State VS.. Judson ChewninS.
rape.
The State Us. Seth Shorter, caGe.
The State VS.. Louis Griffin, larceny,
The State vs.. James Wilson, &ar@s-
larry and larceny.
The State VS.. james H. Tirda,,
assault and battery with inten: 20
kill.
The State VS.. Bessie Bailey. rape.
While the court was waiting for
the grand jury to return Willie Nc
Leod was brought from Jail. He had
been in jail since last court, having
been convicted, but was down with
the measles at the time and too sick
to be brought into court for sentence,
His Honor Judge Buchanan did not
sentence him, so Judge Aldrich tax
ing into consideration the length Of
time Mcleod stayed in jail after con.
viction gave him the following SEN
tence: Imprisonment at hard labor
| on the public works of the county for
a period of nine months or in the
State penitentiary nine months.
The case against Wesley Deas
charged with arson was stricken off
the docket with leave to re-docket.
The grand jury returned to the
court the following bills:
Ed Meyers and John White, assault
| and battery of a high and aggravated
nature, true bill as to Ed Meyers.
No bill as to John White.
Judson Chewing, rape, true bill.
Louis Griffin, larceny, true bill
James Wilson, burglary and lar
ceny, no bill.
Bessie Bailey, rape, true bill.
The first case tried was Ed Meyers,
he was charged with playing ghost
to scare jim Barfeld, a young white
man, and because Barfeld would nos
scare he jumped upon him and gave
him severe beating. He was found
guilty with a recommendation to
mercy and sentenced to pay a fine of
Shirty dollars or be imprisoned in
the State penitentiary at hard labor
for three months.
Judson Chewing charged with
rape was arraigned and through his
counsel made a motion for the case
to be SET for Thursday morning.
Seth Shorter charged with rape,
was also arraigned and he announced
himself ready and the trial was at
once entered into.
This is the case where it was al
legged that young white woman by
the name of Belle Corbett was rav-
isbed and deserted in the woods by
her beSrothed, Seth Shorter, while
on their way to Magistrate to have
the nuptial knot tied.
The trial showed that some pcetvy
bad stretching of Imagination was
INDUCED in, and in plain parlance,
there was considerable lying done.
The trial began Monday afternoon
Immediately after dinner, and lasted
all day yesterday. During the pro-
yress of this case the grand jury
brought in a true bill against Bessie
Bailey, colored, charged with rape
'and no bill against William johnson
charged with the illegal sale of spi-:-
itous liquors.
The grand jury having concluded
their work brought in the following
presentment:
TEEsENf fMESr.
STATE OF SoU-,H CAROLINA,
CLARENDON COUNTY.
In Court of General Sessions, June Term,
1896
To His Honor James Aldrich, Presiding
Judge:
We would express to Your Honor our
high appreciation of having so able and
painstaking Jurist to direct US in the dis
charge OF the arduous duties devolving
upon US as j1lymen, and hope that it may
be Clarendon's good fortune to have you
returned again and again to her county
seat as Presiding Judge.
We would ask to call the attention of the
court to the fact that the recommendations
made by the jury with reference to the in
ferior class of lumber used IN the construc-
ton and repairing OF bridges. has not had
the desired effect Complaints along this
line have been made and We earnestly hope
that effective measures be taken at once for
the carrying out of recommendations con-
tanned in our first report. Also, we note
the frct that persons in all parts of the
county are loath to give heed to the law in
reference to plowiug into and in other
ways infringing on the public highways,
kthis greatly to annoyance of travelling
public, and we would ask that especial
attention be given to the matter.
The evil of gambliog has been brou5l t
to the attention of this jury. and very es-
pecially have we been urged to bring to
the attention of this Honorable Court an
evil which seems from the reports made to
have assumed large proportions, namely:
that of cock-fghting; and whilst the parties
have presented no persons for Indictment,
they claim that the law has been violated.
In the absence of data sufficient for this,
your jury, to suggest the punishment Of
any person or persons for having violated
the law in this particular, We must be sat
isfed to give notice to persons thus violat
| ing the law that We propose to give atten-