The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-04-13
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The Circuit Court.


since our last report:
State VS.. Annie Marshall. Indicted fol
larceny. Tried by the Court and verdict
of guilty rendered. Sentence suspended
Magruder for State Merrick for prise
ner.
State VS. Preston Watts. Indicted fol
larceny. Plead guilty and sentenced to
the House of Correction for years. Ma
gruder for State Stanley for prisoner.
State vs. John E. Brown. Criminal APP
peal. Verdict guilty and sentenced tc
nav $40 and COSTS Magruder for State
Mattingly for defense.
State vs. Homer Berleau. Indicted for
burglary Pleads guilty and sentenced
to the Penitentiary for years.
State VS. Robert Shelton. Indicted fol
larceny. Tried by jury. Verdict guilty
and sentenced to the penitentiary for IL
wears. Magruder for State, Prisoner was
his own counsel and admitted his guilt
State VS.. Francis Chandler. Indicted
for larceny. Plead guilty, two cases, and
sentenced to Home Of Correction for two
wears in each case.
State VS. Peter Brown. Indicted for
larceny. Plead guilty and sentenced to
the Maryland Penitentiary for 2 years
Magruder for State, j. G. Rogers for
prisoner.
State VS.. William H. Young. Indicted
for assault. Plead not guilty on first
count and guilty on second and sentenc'
ed to fine House of Correction for two
wears. Magruder for State. G. B. Mer-
rick for prisoner.
State VS. Ernest Jones, Indicted for
larceny Pleads guilty and sentence sus-
pended for five years.
State VS. R chard Porter: indicted for
assault with intent to kill. Plead not
guilty. Tried by jury and verdict of gail
ty on the first count of the Indictment.
Motion for new trial and reasont ii ed.
Magluder for State Mtrrick and Matting g.
ly for prisoner.
State VS. George Sacks. Indicted for ab-
duction of female under eighteen years
of age. Pleads guilty and sentenced t."
the Maryland Penitentiary for eight
years. Magluder for State. r. ". Wells
for prisoner
State VS. George Saks. Indicted for lar
ceny of horse. Prisoner arraigned and
pleads guilty Sentenced to the Mary
land Penitentia1y for 2 years. Magruder
for State.
State VS. Louis II Griffin; criminal APP
peal; sell ing liquor on Sunday; tried be-
fore the Court and verdict not guilty
Mag1uder for State; George B. Merrick
and Robert w. Wells for Griffin.
State VS. Louis H Griffin; criminal ap
peal; selling whiskey on Sunday, tried
before jury and verdict not guilty. Ma
gruder for State; George B. Merrick and
Robert w. Wells for Grlfil.
State VS.. Samuel Hawkins; indicted for
larceny; plea # not guilty confessed by
State. Magruder for State, Joseph c.
Mattingly for Hawkins.
State VS.. Henry Shaw; indicted fol
false pretenses; tried before jury, yer
dict guilty and sentenced to the Maryland
Penitentiary for years. Magruder fol
State, Alan Bowie for prisoner.
The attendance of The 1st weeks Petit
Jury will be required next week.
The Court was engaged yesterday in
trying the Registration cases, from
Laurel.
The Grand Jury was discharged after
making long report which we will
publish in one next issue.
The Court adjourned until Monday.
Mr.. Charles Fl. Stanley, Chairmtn the
committee offered to the Court the fol
lowing resolutions
WHEREAS it has pleased the all wise,
Being to take out of this world the soul
of our deceased brother in the profession
of the law, the late John B. Brooke.
AND WHEREAS The Bench and Bar Of
Prince Georges County deem it a pea
SAINT duty to revere his memory by APP
propriate action and such as may be at
tested by the records of this COURT and
further, that We may in some degree
voice the sentiments of regret of
sympathizing community i'll which
he spent his whole life:
BE 1T THEREFORE hESOLFED, nat Ill
the demise Of Judge Brooke, Prince
Georges county has lost one of its most
honered citizens, the State one of its
foremost men in the days of its direst
trials, and this Bar member, whose
many prominent acts, have long since
passed into that domain of history, which
some day most be written of Prince
Georges County lawyers.
That as man and citizen he was in
some respects, the peer Of any of his
contemporaries his urbanity, his kind
ness of heart, his genial disposition,
polished humor and wit won him many
friends in the field of politics and else
where, which, with his other refined
traits of character, let US hope have
proven his safegurd to a blessed immor
tality.
That as one of the Judges Of this Cir
cult, his decisions in his fifteen years of
service to his people will rank with those
of his predecessors in soundness Of judici
al lore; his impartial dispensation Of JUS
tiee between man and man, his stern ad-
ministration of it when the dignity of
the State demanded it, and finally his
quiet submission to the fiat of the law it.
self, in his own case, when his term OF
Office expired, RELOCATING him to private
life all combined to mark him as a man
to be we'll and long remembered by all
who knew him.
RESOLVED further, that these resolu
ti0ns be recommended to tie Honorable
Judges of this Circuit for adoption and
to he enrolled upon it's records as our