The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-04-29
CALLED TO THE GRAND JURY ey
JUDGE TOWNSEND TO-DAY.
AGAINST The PISTOL TOTERS
Any Whisky Pedders in the
Rural Distriets-Too Much
Killing IN This Country
Just Now.

In the presence Of large number
Of witnesses and others. tho sprinr
term Of the federal court opened this
morning. There was perfect decurun
In the court room when the cror an,
nOunced that the court was opcned
for the transaction Of all business
that may come before It and Judge
Townsend. who holds the scales of
justice. called for the grand and petit
juries
The following were empaneled:
Grand Jury-W. w. Taliaferro. W.
+. Wilmington. walter Colbert. John
Cornish, j. w. Fulsom, Avery Jones.
Ira Arnold, w. f. Bishop. Bud Pitt.
man. Hugh Suggs. j. w. Hutchins.
Charles Mckinney, J. w Orme, Bill
Thompson.
Petit Jury-Jonas Baum, Ed IIoff.
man, T. II. Banks. Jno. Bennett. u
B. Vernon. Byron Drew. J. II. Proctor,
ID. McGuinn. ). A. Clantus. Geo
Sharp. Geo Akers. J. c. Backer Bud
Mendell, J. II. Phillips. Farley Wor.
sham, w. Il. Mutt, J. VI. Schafer, W
II. Blanton, w. II. Mason, J. W.
Shores. J. II. Hunt, Dan Grinin, A. "
Fox. jim Carroll. Tom Iebus, A. v.
Harris, NJ. Sanders. J. H. Coconver
c. B. Gardenhire and L. Cohn.
Following is Judge Townsends
charge to the grand jury:
Gentlemen, YOU have been selected
as grand jurors for this term of court.
You will understand that no person
who has been guilty of felony can
he tried until they have first been
indicted by the grand jury. In cases
of misdemoanor. II parties see tit to
swear out a warrant they can be
tried by commissioner and II they
are not satisfied with the result of
their trial before the commissioner,
they have "A riNlt II appeal, to be
tried in the district court. But in
cases of felony. tho commissioner has
no power to try. All he can do Is to
make a preliminary examination. and
II he becomes satisfied that they are
presJmptively guilty, It becomes his
duty to bind them over to appear be.
fore the grand jury. The consequence
is, gentlemen, that ycu understand
that with the grand jury. more than
with any other branch OF the court,
lies the first requisite in the
prosecution for crime.
The grand jurors are charged with
the duty OF seeing that all violations
Of the criminal laws should be in.
vestigated. and If they become sat
isfied from the evidence brought be
fore them that there is sufficient ev.
idence to secure conviction, II IL
their duty TO indict and have them
brought before the petit Jury for trial.
cannot too strongly impress upon
you, gentlemen, that the question OF
punishment OF crime rests in the first
ihoAdh'is WIN Auf tIdllu JuI NlllbIt
than any other branch of the court
and there Is nobody else that can
take your place. It is upon the grand
Jury alone that that duty rests.
You have a right to have brought
before you the witnesses to any crime
that you may be personally aware OF,
or that may be brought to your at
tention, and have the matter thor
oughly and fully investigated You
are not limited to investigating jus,
the witnesses that the government
may see fit TO produce, but you can
examine all witnesses. whether for
the government or bor tho defendant.
anybody that will disclose to you
n crime has been committed
or the law violated or not, You have
a right to examine, and 1t is your duty
to examine and send for witnesses,