The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-10-26
WEEK IN THE COURTS
CRIMINAL CASES WILL BE AS
SIGNED IN SUPERIOR COURT.
POTTER CASE COMES NEXT.
THIS WEEK WILL BE OCCUPIED
BY CIVIL PROCEDURE.

city Court AdjOurns To-day or To-
mOrrOw-Ordinary Court Also Adj
jOurns This Week-SeveraI MUIR
der Trials viii Be Held Next
Week-POtter Case Will Be Called
the Week Observation-Disclosures
Has Been Taken geographically.
solicitor General Believes 1t Will
Take "A Week to Try Potter.
There will be no criminal cases tried
in the Superior Court this week, the
entire week being set apart for the
trial of civil cases. The criminal docket
will be called this morning at 10
o'clock when court convenes, and cases
assigned for trial for the week COM
mencing Nov. 2. Some interesting cases
have been assigned, among them several
murder cases, and the weeks proceed
ings will be productive of much inter-
est.
Next week will be interesting enough,
but not so interesting as will the week
following, when the Potter case comes
up for another hearing. The case Oc-
cupied the attention of court and jury
for one week at it's first trial almost
year ago. 1t comes up for trial this
time one year and one week after the
commission of the crime. While some
hold the opinion that the case will not
engage the court more than three days
because of the fact that so much of
the chaff was sifted from the wheat
at the first hearing, the solicitor gen.
eral believes that it will take a week
to finish the second trial.
So far as can be learned there have
been no developments of any particu
lar interest in the case. though some
may come out at the hearing. The
evidence has been all taken steno-
graphically. Since the first trial the
officers have been diligent in their
quest for additional testimony.
1t is believed, however, that
the witnesses VIII be about the same
as those at the last trial, with the eN
ception of one or two who have died
in the interim. The case will attract
little less interest a its second trial
than it did at the first.
The City Court will adjourn to-day or
tomorrow for its July term. The term
has been very busy one, a large
amount of business having been dis
posed of. Since the first day of the
term the court has been in continuous
session, no vacation for the summer
months having been taken. Until a
short While ago jury trials were held
but all the business of the court re-
curing the Intervention of jury hav-
ing been disposed of. no other jury
trials have been held, except in Grim
inal cases, where the accused took ad-
vantage of his right to have a trial by
jury.
In Court of Ordinary.
The Court of Ordinary will also ad-
journ, Friday being the last day of
the October term The business of the
court has been about the same for the
term, with the exception of lunacy
cases, which have been more numerous
thar heretofore. Chatham county has
sent two or three lunatics to the asy-
lum at Milledgeville each week this
month.
Judge McAlpin expects to receive
the names of those whose applications
for pensions were approved by Com
missioner Lindsay this week. There
have been a great many inquiries, and
the court hopes to be able to answer
them in a few DAYS.
1t is not known definitely on what
day the United States District and
Circuit courts will convene, but it is
believed it will be during the first part
of next month. Judge Speer has not
yet sent for the jury boxes, and, so far
as the clerk is informed, has not init
mated on what date he will come to
Savannah. Deputy Clerk Gillespie
has the dockets and other records in
state of preparation for the opening
of the court at any time.