The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-19
CORP USY TIMES
Col. Harris Shoulders His
Writ and Boards the
Police Court Again.

Colonel ]. c.. l.. Habeas Corpus
Harris is again after the Constitutions
alty of the Police Justices Court At
ter it with a Writ, his eyes shining
along the barrel, stalking it like a
mountain lion creeps upon an unsus-
pecting antelope. In the meantime
the Court quivers and waits and turns
in trembling appeal to the City Attor-
ney and the Attorney General
Girding their Constitutions about
their loins these brawny supporters
of the Law of the Land march va
liantly forth into the Arena to meet
the Mixed Metaphor OF Col Habeas
squirting down rlHe barrel ana
creeping like Mountain Lion.
And waiting to hail the Police Court
as Conuueror of the Lists or to sem
tence it to death with down-turned
thumbs sits the Audience of the SUI
preme Court. -h~t
The Court is a trifie ennuied, hav-
ing before seen the Habeas Corpus in
all its fury. champing at it's bit and
sighting down its flaming blade OF
precedenta.
But it will do its duty--whether or
not it will turn down its thumbs.
All of which is not half so mixed
as it would appear at first reading
not by a niger on the roads. ~--
! And Colonel Harris deserves his
title and his similies;. for verify does
he Corpus away such Dies habeat-
| left! And surely does, he sight a police
court browsing yet long way off,
! and equally does he slip upon it un-
awares while it nibbles the grass OF
the Pastures in which it has been set
| by the laws, $50 1-s.tr
| Heretofore there have been the
cases of Bertha and OSburn Brown
the case of Will Snow and now there
! is the case of John Person. Sometime
| in July John grieVously smote one
| Will Jones and since he struck on the
head the charge was assault with a
deadly weapon instead of manslaught-
en- which was agreeable to both VIII
and the Police Court, since the latter
had-or thought it had-jurisdiction
And Justice Badger sent John to the
roads where he might exercise himself
upon the macadam and it seemed thai
all was well.
But it wasn't, for even on the roads
there came the rumor of Habeas Cor
pus stalking the Police Court and a.
any rate, there was one day off from
work in it,
So John and the Colonel came to
terms and the Colonel shouldered his
writ and placed it before Judge Hoke
Probably, as he ran his eye ovel
the script the Justice thought in this
wise, POLITICALLY:
! "Once 1 heard on Afric's sunny shore
! "a raging lion give g grievous roar:
"Sez |, Methinks' I've heard tina
roar before"
/ But the writ issued and today OF
mayhap next day John Person vii
| come in with Mr.. Henry Holding
and there will be a hearing before
Judge Hoke and then John will &c
out again to the roads and the Su
preme Court will take reserved seats
for the argument.
! AS has been meant to be said al
along, Colonel Harris petitioned yes
terday before Justice Hoke for VIII
of habeas corpus for John Person, al
leging the Illegally of the warrant un
der which he was indicted as haV
ing been issued on information ant
belief and also attacking the consti
nationality of the Police Court in tina
defendants are not allowed a jury
trial
1t is understood that the petition
Involving a constitutional question
will take the usual course, Justice
Hoke formally dismissing it and Col
onel Harris appealing from his de
cison to the full court.
After this case, the Colonel say
that he may exercise MN self soln'
l.more in the Federal court on TN
fouestion as to whether working a pris
oner on the roads for non-payment o
a fine and costs is not peonage.
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