The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-03-16
WEDNESDAY,.

the Grand Jury.
WEDNESDAY.
Court convened pursuant to adjourn.
ment, with Associate Judge \. l.. Gro.
theirs on the bench
The cases OF State VS.. r. b. Frazer
Frank G. Ellis, Henry S Cameron
Charles ID. Evans and J. Frank Frazer
were tried before the Court, and in
each case a plea OF guilty was entered
and verdict OF guilty recorded anc
judgment suspended. His Honor Judge
CrotherS in suspcnding sentence gave
the reasons for the Courts action b,
saying 1t is the purpose OF the
Court as well as its duty to enforce
most rigidly the laws which YOU have
been charged with violating and il the
Court would impose the sentences now
they would be Imprisonment in the
House OF Correction as provided by
law, as this is our determination in al
cases OF this class. except where there
are palIlating circumstances OF a very
strong character. In these cases yot
have confessed your guilt by the pleas
which you have entered and have not
gone on the witness stand and pcrjurcd
yourselves or at least subjected your
selves to temptation to commit per
jury IN the effort to shield yourselves
from the consequences OF Your guilt
Nor have you, by putting yourselves
on trial, dclantly opposed the process
of justice This is the first time any OF
you have been prosecuted for viola.
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tion oi these facts and the further fact
that with the exception OF the offense.
to which you have plead guilty, you
have always been law-abiding citizens
the Court is not disposed to degrade
you by imposing a sentence continine
you in the House OF Correction il the
ends OF justice and the purposes which
led to these prosecutions can be other.
wise accomplished. Sentences are
therefore suspended in all OF these
cases, as the Court is authorized by
the express provisions OF the law, to
do. The effect OF the suspension OF
sentence, the Court desires YOU to fully
understand and realize. 1t means, not
that you are i'll any way acquitted. but
that sentences are simply suspended
You can be brought into Court at any
time and the sentence OF the Court i'm
posed without any new trial or any
evidence offered. None of YOU have a
right to offer motion for a new trial
nor to take any appeal. The Judgment
against you is absolute Without max
ing you any promise that the sentence
OF the Court will not be imposed at a
future time, we will say that ii there
are no suspicious OF your violating
these laws in the future it is not prob
able that the sentence will ever be i'm
posed. II, on the contrary, you again
engage in the slightest degree in anv
violations OF these laws or any well
grounded suspicious that you are do
ing so. obtained, you are warned that
you will be brought into Court forth
with and the sentence imposed and in
such case it will be imprisonment. The
Court hopes that YOU will accept this
kindly warning from an humble minis
ter OF justice in the spirit in which it is
given and so regulate your conduct as
to render unnecessary any further ac-
ton on the part of the Court" All
costs we're imposed upon the defend
ants.
The Court then went into a thorough
explanation OF the rigid and sweeping
provisions of the local option and
gambling laws and pointed out the pro-
visions referring to physicians, drug
stores, receiving orders for the pur
chase OF liquor and the salient fea-
lures OF both laws. Court then ad
jOurned