The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-05
MUST ENFORCE THE LAW.
Judge Tells Grand Jury what to DO
With Sabbath ViOlators.


The March term of the Superior Court
convened at 10 o clock yesterday morning,
when Judge Falligant delivered an elo-
quent and impressive charge to the grand
jury. 1t bore especially upon some CT
the topics now attracting the attention
of the public.
Judge Falligant said that it was the
duty of the grand jury to pc 4sent for
punishment those who it found had VIC
lated the laws designed to secure the OBJ
servance of the Sabbath. The grand jury
was sworn TO enforce the law and was
not expected to enact anything. If evil
dence of Sunday violations was shown in
dictments against the guilty parties should
follow.
Judge Falligant was especially severe on
the subject of the sale of liquor on Sun
day. Because the daw permitted the sale
of liquor under restrictions on other days
of the week it was not to be lost sight
OF that its sale on Sunday was prohibited;
this was one of the safeguards of the
public welfare and it should be enforced.
F1f the laws regulating the sale of liquor
We're. not enforced, the local option senti-
ment would meet with serious opposition
and there would be. danger of the enact
ment of general prohibition law, effec-
tive throughout Georgia. The grand jury
should see to it that those who sold liquor
on Sunday were presented to the court;
he would see to it that if they were guilty
they would be punished.
Judge Fallgant instructed the grand
jury. to guard with the most Vigilant
care the purity of the ballot and to pre-
sent those who engaged in the iniquitous
business of buying and selling votes.
There is no greater menace, he said, to
the safety of American Institutions than
his attack upon the great principle, that
the will of the people is the supreme law,
upon which these institutions are based.
When such things had occurred in this
county in the past, it had been the case
that neither faction or party was in a
position to cast the first stone, or, indeed,
to cast any stone at all. Elections should
be placed above the reach of those who
are willing to debauch voters in order to
win political victories and it is incumbent
upon the grand jury to do everything it
can to bring about this state of affairs.
The remainder of Judge Falligant's
charge was along the lines usually fol-
lowed by him in his addresses to the
grand juries, touching upon gambling,
carrying concealed weapons and other es-
pecially named offenses, the law of which
he is required to give in charge Judge
EalliganG also instructed the grand jury
as to the civil functions it is its duty to
discharge. ...- .--
The grand jurors who We're selected
from the panel of forty originally sum-
moned are as follows: John r. Sheldon,
foreman; Lehman Putzel. Isaiah A. Solos
mons. JamesssM NJ. Dixon, John Derst,
George W. Allen, W. w. Aimar, John
O'Gorman. George w. Lamar. Joseph
Phillips. j. Moultrie Lee, Nathaniel Har-
rison, William T. Leopold. Francis II.
Marshall, Tomlinson F. johnson, c. B.
Malone Frank G. Bell. Lee G.. Arms trong,
Adolph Berg, Augustus c. Guerard, An
drew Hanley, David Y. Dancy John ].
Gaudry.
The first session of the grand jury was
held in the afternoon. when three indict-
ments We're returned. All We're for the
same offense, the violation of the fish
laws of the state, the defendants, who
are not residents of Georgia, being charg-
ed with fishing in the waters of the state,
without taking out the license and pay
ing the tax that the law exacts. The
defendants in the three cases are Rich
ard Stokes, Eugene Lubs and Walter
Murray.