The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-27
THE NEWS OF THE DAY FROM THE
HALLS OF JUSTICE.

court will take a day off.
The j6ries of the city court will assem-
BILE again tomorrow, however. and the
work of that branch of the court Will be
taken up again after several days alb
sence of Judge Norwood.
The superior court is nearing the end
of the criminal docket and it is believed
that within the next week or ten days
Judge Falligant will be ready to take up
civil work altogether for the remainder of
the June term. The city court, however
Is more in the nature of Tennyson's brook,
running on forever. There is never any
ending of the grind in that branch of the
court for the reason that its dockets ne
cessarily are burdened from day to day
with many minor criminal cases which de-
mand a speedy trial, and this necessitates
weekly criminal sessions of the court to
clear the Jail.
In the superior court there are several
important criminal cases to be tried before
the docket is passed for the preesnt term.
1t Is expected that the Dyer case Will be
brought up again, the first trial having re-
suited In failure to agree on verdict
by the jury. Dyer is charged with the
murder of William r. Titcomb last Christ
mas. The story behind the case is IA
miliar TO the public, the case having but
lately been tried in the superior court.
Solicitor General Osborne announces that
he is ready to try the case over again at
any time, and Messrs. Twigg and Morgan
declare that they prefer that 1t be heard
at this term of the court as the prisoner
will have to remain In jail until the next
term of the court unless the case Is dis
posed of. The attorneys for the defndant
feel very sure that they will clear their
client. 1t will be remembered at the last
trial the jury stood four for conviction on
the charge of murder, four for a verdict
of a lesser crime and four for acquttal.
The case against Detective Godbold for
the alleged offer of a bribe to a juror
while a case was being tried in the city
court is also booked for the term of the
superior court
Simon O'Neil and Maurice Sullivan,
sentenced for the killing of a negro man
several months ago, were taken to the
penitentary camp at Gress' lumber mills
yesterday by Capt. ]. b. Crabb. These
two men have been in Jail for some time
awaiting anxiously for some ray of hope
from the supreme court, to which their
case was taken by their attorneys. The
case of O'Nen was managed by Judge H.
d. d. Twiggs, on the motion for a new
trial. Judge Twiggs was not associated
with the case on the original trial. but
was engaged on the motion for a new
trial. He was never associated with the
Sullivan case, nor with the Pat Kearney
case as has been inferred by reason of
the fact that they were all three argued
before the supreme court the same day
Sullivan and O'Neil will have fifteen years
each TO serve in payment of their crime
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er his paramour, and was sentenced to
fifteen years. was taken to the peniten-
tiary yesterday. There we're several others:
Andrew Ray, who will serve two years
for burglary; w. f. Hopkins, who will
dwell in the camp two years for forgery,
and Charles Williams and Ben Berrien
who were sentenced to five and two years
respectively for assault with intent to
murder.
There will be no further effort to bring
the Pat Kearney case again before the
supreme court after all.
This decision was reached by Messrs
duBignon and Slater the attorneys who
We're engaged to endeavor to get a re-
opening of the case before the high court
after thorough sitting of the status of
the case. The supreme court granted an
order last Friday holding back the remit
tur from the lower court announcing its
decision affirming the decision of the
court below, and naming to-day as the
date for the argument for a reopening Of
the case. II was determined, however,
by the supreme court in doing this to all
low no new evidence to be brought before
it. i was stipulated that Messrs. duBig-
non and Slater should, In their efforts to
explain why there should be another hear
ing, confine themselves to the facts in the
case as presented the last time the matter
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| 7. 5. Morgan, Jr., made a thorough ar
gument of in favor of a new trial. No
new assignment OF error was allowed by
the supreme court TO be brought up at this
late day, and after considering the ruling,
Messrs. duBignon and Slater decided to
| allow the case TO stand where It is. Kear-
ney will be taken to the penitentiary.
where he has septnece for life to serve
out In atonement for the killing Of wy
ness.
Il is understood that there Is already a
well-planned movement afoot among his
friends TO bring his case before the COVER
nor in few years to ask for his pardon.
Judge Falligant rendered a decision in
/ the now famous Gullmartin VS.. the Mid
| die Georgia and Atlantic Railroad Com
| pany yesterday. lie refused the Injunction
prayed for and the receiver. The case
was brought some time ago by the dissat-
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/ road. The branch road was sold TO the
Middle Georgia and Atlantic. which as
sumed It's bonded Indebtedness. The Mid
/ die Georgia and Atlantic was sold to the
/ Central The Eatontou branch people OBJ
| jected 20 the sac of their property and
l the case came up on their petition for an
/ injunction and receiver. The ease was
/ argued ana the petition overrued The
/ case went 10 the supreme court and the
| lower court was affirmed. Then NJ. G.
| n. West attorney for the plaintiffs.
amended his blll which sought to make
the members OF the central committee par
/ ties defendant on this amendment the
case was heard several days ago aud the
| decision OF the court was rendered.
! Victoria Bruce. the wife OF Eugene
! Bruce, hlcd a petition with the superior
! court for allmony. charging dcssrtion She
/ was married iu 1876. ana lived with her
/ husband until recently. when he suddenly.
] ana with no apparent cause. o. said 10
/ have desorqd her She charges that she
/ should Doe Supported as her husband earns
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