The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-10
I. ]. CORNWELL Is
 AGAIN ON TRIAL Nine Jurors Have Already
 Been Selected CASE WILL OPEN TODAY Plea of Former Jeopardy Filed By De- fendant's Attorneys Will Be Ar
 eued Before the Jury Who
 Will Decide Its Merits.

Bessemer, October 9.-(Special)-The case of the state versus T. J. Cornwen, charged with embezzlement in the fall ure of the Bessemer Savings bank, Of which he was president, was called in the Bessemer city court this morning with Acting Judge James Weatherly on the bench
 At the time of adjournment this after noon at o'clock nine jurors had been selected. After the jury has been com pleted, which will possibly be soon af- ter court reconvenes at 9:3O tomorrow morning. the case will be taken up and the argument of pleas and demurrers will
 begin
 Before the case proper is gone into
 the plea of former jeopardy, filed a few
 days ago, by the attorneys for the de-
 fense, will be argued and submitted to
 the jury for decision. If the Jury over
 rules the plea case No 1907, the last
 case appearing on the docket against
 Cornwell, will be put on trial. Before announcing ready for trial this
 morning Solicitor L. D. Godfrey an
 nounced that case No. 1907 would be
 tried. Captain Frank s. White and w.
 K. Smith, attorneys for the defendant
 objected to this on the ground that case
 no. 994 was the first appearing on the docket and that they had made prepara- tion for the trial of this case and not for the trial of the others. though all fourteen cases appearing on the docket were set for hearing today. Captain White eta pd hat hp had
 missed that the first case appearing on the docket would be tried and since the trial of that case necessarily continued the others he had only prepared for the trial of case No. 994 He stated that he had
 gone to the expense of securing deposit tions of a witness living in another state
 and that though the depositions would apply in any of the fourteen cases the
 states attorney had refused to allow
 their introduction in other than the first case named
 After some discussion Solicitor Godfrey agreed to allow the depostions to be in- troduced in case No. 1907 and the de- fendants attorneys withdrew their ob- jection and allowed the calling of that case. This indictment charges Cornwell with the embezzlement of $25,000. After this point had been settled Pink 1 ney Scott, who is assisting Solicitor God l frey with the prosecution, offered some 1 demurrers to the plea of the defendant already filed in court. The acting judge ruled that the plea and demurrers should go before the jury and ordered the em- paneling of the Jury to decide the merits
 of the plea and also to try the case in 1 the event the plea is not sustained. | The remainder of the day was taken
 up in the selection of jury and at ad- | journment nine of the jury had been
 selected. Two short adjournments were | taken during the day to allow the sheriff l to summon talesfnen.
 | Following are the jurors selected to- | day: E. Winter, A. w. Deason, J. F Vaughn. Jeff Sims, J. A. Smithson. J. M | Young, O. l.. McClinton, J. Ed Parsons l and R. l.. Blankenship.
 | Order of the Day. Court was opened promptly at 10:4 with Acting Judge Weatherly on tn, | bench and a good sized crowd of specta
 tors in the court room.
 | About half an hour before the openinf | of the court T. J. Cornwell entered tn,
 room accompanied by Mrs. Cornwell ans
 her sister, Miss Cockrell. The ladies oc | cupied seats inside the railing while MT | Cornwell sat between his attorneys fol | lowing closely every movement of tn, | court and the attorneys on either side. | Most of the forenoon was taken up witi the empaneling of two juries to be knowr I