The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-03
JUMPED BEEF TRUST
JUDGE BARROW'S FORCIDLE
CHARGE TO GRAND JURY.
SOME HISTORICAL FANATICS
WANT GRAND JURY TO TAKE Ex-
IRENE POSITIONS, HE SAYS.

Separation of Juvenile Prisoners
From Hardened Criminals at Con-
Wet Farm-Law on Gaming Again.
Judge Barrow Explains What the
Duty of a Grand Juror Is-His Sc
May Bring Results.
An arraignment of the beef trust,
references to gambling and other mis-
demeanors and to a reformatory for
youthful prisoners were made by Judge
Barrow in his charge to the grand jury
of the Superior Court yesterday at the
converting of the June term.
Judge Barrow's charge was able and
interesting. 1t was listened to atten-
lively by the grand jury, and his sug-
gestion for an indictment of the beef
trust will probably result in something
happening. Mr.. Charles NJ. Gilbert was
chosen foreman and the following jury
took the oath:
Charles A. Cox, C. A. L. Cunning
ham, David Y. Dancy, S. Herman, Lee
| G. Armstrong, George ]. Mills, Alfred
S. Nichols, Albert L. Rees, Patrick F.
| Gleason, George w. Anderson, Joseph
| B. Chestnut, William c. Neidlinger,
| James M. Barnard, Tomlinson F.
| Johnson, John Derst, Abraham A. Sol
onions. c. Fraser Law, Marquis L. EX-
| ley, Frank H. Morse.
| In his charge Judge Barrow said:
1T is your duty to examine the list
of voters, and if any voter is found
! thereon who is not entitled to vote it
is your duty to present him. 1t is the
intention of our government, and the
meaning of the laws of this state, that
the country shall be ruled by those
who are entitled to rule, and that
man who is not entitled to vote and
does vote, commits a crime in this
state. You may examine the list of
the voters in this county, and if you
find a voter on there who is not en-
titled to vote, present him."
Separating Juvenile Offenders.
Judge Barrow dwelt at some
length on the convict question. "At
the beginning and at the close of the
| last term of this court" he said, 81
called attention of the grand jury to
what 1 considered, and to what others
considered, a condition of things that
| ought not to last; that is, the herd
ing together of young children with old
| hardened criminals, who have been
there three and four times; sleeping
same row, and eating at the same
| table. The County Commissioners very
| soon thereafter took steps to put up a
5eperate building for juvenile often
ders This having been done, did not
| think it necessary to have a vote on
| the question of reformatory for this
county because the County Commits
sioners had practically solved the prob
lem-the separation of the old hard
| or-if10 ina lie iIa
inals. The last grand jury, however,
finds the building erected too close to
the one in which the old criminals are
| quartered
'L~don't know about that, for 1 have
not seen it, 1 have, however, conf
dence in the judgment of the grand
jury, and l. have confidence, too, in the
| hnd by experience that it is too close,
it will be very easy to move it further
off.
How Crime Is Punished.
Before I begin to deal with specific
| offenses, l want to state to the grand
| jury exactly how a viola ton of the law
can be legally punished. In order to
bring a man to punishment in Geor-
gia four separate and distinct, but CO.
ordinate, branches of the court must
| be brought into play. The first is the
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the third is the petit jury and the
| fourth is the judge. The duty devolv-
ing upon the first, the grand jury, is to
put the ball in motion. There
is no power on earth-inside the terri
torial boundaries of Georgia-which can
begin, or set on foot, a prosecution
for a felony but you.
THE governor; both branches of the
Legislator all of the State House Of
flcers; all of the judges of the state
| from the Supreme Court down. can't
find a bill of indictment; they can't put
| man on trial without going to the
grand jury. The matter has got to go
through the grand jury room, if it is
felony, before one can be placed on
trial.
What are your duties? You see how
important your powers are. If no
grand jury will indict in Georgia, no
felony can be prosecuted in Georgia.
| If every man in the state over the
age of twenty-one, were to get togeth-
er in one meeting and undertake to in
dict man for a felony, it would be
useless, for the grand jury is the prop
er and only body who can find a bill
of indictment.
Duties of Grand Jury.
Your oath comes very near defining
what your powers and duties are. The
! language is shall diligently inquire and
| true presentments make of all such
matters and things as shall be given
| you in charge, or shall come to your
| knowledge Let me repeat that:
Shall diligently inquire and true pre-
sentiments make of all such matters
and things as shall be given you in
charge, or shall come to your knowI-
edge
That does not say such matters and
things as you shall discover-such mat
tiers as you may ferret out. 1t is such
matters and things as shall be given
! you in charge, or shall be brought to
your knowledge, or shall come to your
! knowledge. There is one more para
graph of the code which l will read in
/ connection with that, and that is, par
agraph $50:
whilst grand jurors are bound only
to notice or make presentments of such
! ofenses as may or shall come to their
| knowledge or observation after thew
! shall have been sworn, yet they have
! the right and power, and it is their
| duty as jurors, to make presentments
| of any violations of the laws which
! they may know to have been commit
ted at any previous time, which are
! not barred by the statute of limita-
/ tions."
! Il understand those two paragraphs
| of the code to mean, and in brief that
after you are sworn you are bound bv
your oath to inquire and present as to
all matters that you hear of after you
are sworn. All matters that come to
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