Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-12

fenced the defendant TO ten In
the penitentiary.
The case of the State VS.. M. A. Thul
unlawful sale of liquor by druggist
was called. Case continued over term
by the court.
State VS.. Adam Pichowski-keeping
saloon open on Sunday. Found guilty
and sentenced to pay fine of 500.
In the case of the State VS.. w. E
Smith-information for keeping saloon
open on Sunday-on statement of states
attorney of unsupported evidence and
motion TO dismiss, the court sustained
the motion and dismissed the case.
State rs. Carl Lepinski-assault with
a dangerous weapon. Motion by States
Attorney Anderson to dismiss. Over
ruled by the court and case carried over
the term.
State VS.. w. E. Fisk. Carried over
the term on account OF. absence of ma
terial witnesses.
State VS.. Ed Magnus-bastardy case.
Parties married and case dismissed.
State VS.. Emil Werner-taking
down a fence on section line 1.-THE Butler
case. Dismissed by court on question Of
law.
State VS.. Joseph Slickeway-bastardy
On motion of G. A. Wells, for prosecu-
ton, the case was carried over the term.
As the attorneys figured it would take
until Thursday, at least, to finish the
criminal calendar, they had notified
their clients and witnesses not to come
in until Friday, and no case was ready
for trial.
TIE court took a recess until the sher-
if could bring in Youngs and Pichowski
for sentence, after which court adj
journe6.
NOTES.
There is little doubt the July term
will be a jury term.
Judge Mccoy and Stenographer Gran
ger went home on the passenger We'd
nesday evening.
Judge Lund surprised his friends in
his argument in the Davidson case. 1t
was exceptionally good.
Mr.. Taylor's record as states attorney
does not suffer any by comparison with
that of the present incumbent.
Sheriff Rich drove to Waubay, We'd
nesday, for John Youngs, so he could
receive sentence before court adjourned.
Everybody is throwing bouquets at
Judge Mccoy for the manner in which
he presides and dispatches court bust
ness.
Many people are of the opinion that
there's a 'nigger in the woodpile"
somewhere when speaking of open sa-
looms on Sunday.
Mr.. Arctandcr said, in the hearing of
the writer, that Mccoy was one of the
best judges he w practiced before,
and that his rulings were very prompt,
concise ana comprehensive.
Sears is justified in being proud of
the record he has made professionally at
this term, He is rapidly gaining the
reputation of being OF the best
criminal lawyers in the state. At a re-
cent term he won a breach Of promise
case as plaintiffs attorney, wherein the
defendant was a woman, and at this
term he secured a $700 verdict in a case
for malicious prosecution.
The judge said, when a motion to
dismiss was made in the Thul case, that
in future, if more are was not taken by
complaining witnesses in bringing cases
before the ciycuit court, it would, of its
own motion, institute proceedings for
perjury; that he was tired of having the
time Of the court taken up and the e
pense incident to a trial of cases whose
witnesses made it convenient not TO APP
pear and testify, and he would have no
more of it.
BY a reference to the record you will
find that the local attorneys have de-
cidedly the best of it in the number Of
cases won. The local bar is to be con
graduated upon its success. If you
want a case we'll looked after, don't
send away for counsel-rather entrust
it to local talent. The decision in the
Butler case settles, so far as this court is
concerned, the question of a section line
being a highway. The court took the
case out Of the hands Of the jury and
decided it on points of law. An anus
ing incident occurred when Mr.. Taylor
called the courts attention TO the fact
that Ignorance of the law excuses no
one. Yes said the judge, but when,
as in this case, the supreme court judges
differ on a proposition, it is expecting a
great deal of a green Dutchman to have
a,correct and comprehensive construc-
ton Of the law This remark brought