Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-03-12
PROCEEDINGS OF cousr.
The Dan Roach Case Has Been disposed oi.
: Several Cases MOI Proseed.

= IS.
The Court OF General Sessions con-
yone6 at waihalia Court Honse last last
Monday morning, Judge g. wv. Gage
presiding. Solicitor Julius E. Bog9s W s,s
seated behind formidable pile Of In.
dictments OF alleged Bvil-doors.. Stenoq-
rapher Wyatt Aiken disproved the pub.
lished repSrt, In some newspapers, thet
he was Electromagnetic of the Eighth
Circuit" by appearing, pencil in hand,
TO make q true report of all things said
and done by the Court, lawyers aud wit-
nesses. None could be found more com.
petent for the task.
The grand and petit jurors answered to
their names. The grand Jury esas or
ganized with Mr.. Y. @. Jsngston as
foreman. The Solicitor handed out a
number of bills of indictments, and busi-
ness was rapidly dispatched.
Up to tho time of going TO press al
noon wednesday, cases have been dis
posed of as follows:
The State VS.. r. A. Alexander, dis
posing, OF property under lien. Mol
pressed.
The State VS.. Wesley Powell and Ra.
chel Thomas, adultery. Discontinued
The State ys. Ivory Hemphill, assault
with intent to kill. Mol pressed.
The State va. VIM; w. Watkins, breach
of trust. Continued.
The State VS.. Nathaniel Cox, assault
and battery OF high and aggravated
nature. Mol pressed.
The State vs. Sheriff Haynes, main
tanning q barbed wire fence too near the
public road. Recommitted to Magis-
trate's Court for trial.
The State vs. Lee Scott, assault and
battery with intent to kill. Mol pressed
The State We. Hayne Stevens, house
breaking and larceny. Mol pressed.
The State ys. Robt. Adams, disposing
of property under lien. Guilty. Sem
t6nced to sixty days on the chain gang or
pay a fine of $50. Appeal taken, and
defendant let out on bail.
The State vs. James Park Mckinney
and Mordecai Mckinney, killing fish
| with dynamite. Not guilty.
The State vs.. w. r. Cobb, disposing of
property under lien. Continued.
The State vs. Jack Wilson. disposing
OF property under lien. Mol pressed.
The State VS.. Thomas Conley, bigamy.
Discontinued.
The State vs. James N. Leathers,
adultery. Discontinued.
The State vs.. w. II. Hughs, violation
of dispensary law. Guilty on second
| and third counts, Sentence not imposed,
but an appeal will be taken.
The State vs.. l.. S. Dobbins, assault
and battery with intent to kill. True
bill. Continued.
The State vs. John M. Hudson, dis
posing of property under lien. Guilty.
Sentenced to five months on chaingang.
The State Vs. j. Q. Haley, assault and
battery with intent to kill. True bill.
| Continued.
The State vs. William Centell, assault
and battery with intent to kill. No bill.
The State VS.. Bill Woods and Alice
Richardson, adultery. No bill.
Town Council of Westminster VS.. John
9. Barton, appeal from judgment of
Town Council, disorderly conduct. Ap-
peal Dismissed and case remanded to
| The State VS.. Fletcher Knox, dispos-
ing of property under lien. Not given
out. Discontinued.
The State vs. j. II. Barker, disposinp
Of property under lien. True bill. Con-
| tinued.
| The State vs. James E. Crooks, obtain
ing goods under false pretences. True
| bill. Continued.
The State va. Leonard Daniel Roac h
murder. Guilty of manslaughter. SEN,
fenced to six years in the penitentiary at
hard labor.
The State VS.. Martin Sweezy, resisting
an officer. No bill.
The State vs. Ed. Hughes, assault and
battery of high and aggravated nature.
NO Dill.
The State VS.. Thomas E. Lanier, OBJ
tanning goods under false pretences. No
| bill.
The State vs.: Robert Priestly, violation
of the dispensary law. No bill.
The State vs.. Wilborn Wilson, viola
tion of the dispensary law. No bill.
The State VS.. Margaret A. Dunn and
James Barton, murder. Not guilty.
The trial of the Hudsons, charged with
the murder of Rachel Thomas, is set for
tomorrow.
| The grand jury is expected to make
| its report this afternoon. 1t will appear
| in our columns next week.