The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-04


 -rdSy that the absence of an. attorney
 I'm thS city when he was called would Ut operAte to grant a continuance. 5 The sann hours of holding court will be observed; 10 o'clock on Monday morn ing and 93O on all other days.
 New Suits Filed.
 The following suits were filed in the circuit court yesterday:
 W. B. Morgan, administrator of the estate of Robert J. Trammell, vs. Ten nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. The plaintiff claims GOO for the death of intestate, alleged to have been killed while working for the defendant at War rior mines.
 Same plaintiff sues Republic Iron and Steel company for similar amount all leging same cause of action.
 Dilcie Rawls sues the Birmingham Rail way Light and Power company for 5000 for alleged personal injuries.
 Criminal Court Report.
 Judge Dan A. Greene finished his re- port of the business of the criminal court and the condition of the docket at the end of the April term. The report shows that there are sixty more cases pending now than there were at the beginning of the term, notwithstanding the fact that 1854 cases had ben disposed of during the term. It is proposed to submit the re- port to the members of the legislature with the object of securing legislation whereby one of the judges of the city court can be appointed by the governor to act as special criminal court judge when the occasion requires. The following Is Judge Greene's report: Statement of the condition of the crim- inal docket at the end of the April, 1907, term and business transacted during that term.
 First Division Jury)-Cases pending end of January term. 300; docketed during April term, 263; total 563. Cases disposed of finally, 265; pending end of April term, 29S.
 I nadditon to the 265 cases actually disposed of, there were thre mstrials and seven cases appealed to the supreme court, making in fact 275 cases gone through with.
 Included in the above statement are the capital cases. of which there were:
 Pending end of January term. S5; docketed during April term, 3l; total. 116; cases disposed of finally, 21 pending at end of April term, 95. In addition to the 265 cases actually finally disposed of, there were two mis- trials and three cases appealed to the supreme court, making in fact twenty-six dases gone through with.
 Second Division (Non-Jury-Cases pend ing end of January term, 5O6 docketed during April term. 1151; total, 1857; dis pose dof during term 1889; pending end of April term, 56S.
 In addition to the 1889 cases finally dis posed of, ther were eight appeals making total of 1097 cases in fact gone through with.
 Reorganization.
 Jury cases pending end of January
 term ... ... .... ... 300 Non-jury cases pending end of Janu-
 ary term .'. -. ..' ... -. DOG Total. ... -. =. ... e. =. =. =. sOs Jury cases docketed during term... 26S Nonjury cases docketed during term 1151 Total =. =. ... ... =. ...1414 Making a grand total of cases on
 docket during term ... =. =. '.222O Non-capital felonies disposed of =. 244 Capital felonies disposed of .. ... . 21 Msdemeanors disposed of =. .. .. 1OS9 Making a grand total of cases dis
 posed of during term ... ... =. ...1354 Number of cases on all dockets end
 ol Aprll term =. ... Sob In addition to the grand total of 1854 cases disposed of finally, there were eighteen mistrals, making in fact 1872
 
 that there are ten more capital cases on the docket than there were at the end of the previous term, altttugh twenty one cases have ben finally disposed of and one-half of the term devoted to capi- tai cases, while of the non-capital felonies the number pending at this term have been reduced by only eight since the pre- vious term, On the misdemeanor docket there are pending sixty-two more cases than were pending at the end of the January term. Upon the whole docket. in spite of the fact that 1854 cases have been disposed of during the April term, there are on the docket a total of sixty cases more than were pending at the end of the January term.
 In connection with the foregoing state ment the report of the warden at the county jail shows that there were 203 pris- oners confined in the county jail on July l, of which number fifty were held on capital felony charges and nearly all tho others on non-eapital felony charges, a few being held on misdemeanor charges and unable to make bond. The criminal court meets the first Mon- day in September. and If many arrest s are made in the meantime the condition O fthe jail will present very serious problem.