Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-04-17
CIRCUIT COURT.


bill.
Walter Baskins, indicted for viola
ton of dispensary law. True bill.
Reese Witherspoon. Assault and
battery with intent to kill. True bill.
G.. w. Hill. assault and battery with
intent to kill. True bill
Walter Hardin. assault and battery
with intent to kill. True bill.
Jeff Sanders and Will Sanders. as
sault and battery with intent to kill.
No bill.
Saul Brown, assault and battery with
intent to kill and carrying concealed
weapons True bill.
Leon Barnett, assault and battery
with intent to kill True bill.
Ollie Brown and Foster Wise, lar
ceny. True bill.
William Hunter. arson. True bill.
]. f. Jackson. Thomas Christenbury
and Harve Michael, gambling. True
bill.
]. T.. Jackson and Thomas Christen-
bury. assault and battery with intent
to kill. True bill.
Robert Chambers. assault and bat
terry with intent to kill and carrying
concealed weapons. True bill.
Henry Simms. assault and battery
with intent to kill and carrying con-
cealed weapons. True bill.
Lum Parham, Hamp Johnson and
Samuel Johnson. violation of the dis
pcnsary law. True bill.
John Love. assault and battery with
intent to kill and carrying concealed
weapons. True bill.
y. G. Mickle. disposing Of property
under lien. True bin.
]. NJ McCorkle. assault and battery
with intent To Kill. True bill as to as
SAINT of high and aggravated nature.
In the case of William Dunlap. Chess
Lockrdee and Robert Johnson. charged
with the murder Of Nathan Lindsay,
in progress when the last issue Of The
Enquirer went to press, the jury found
a verdict Of not guilty as to Chess
Lockridge and guilty with a recon-
mendation to mercy as to VIM. Dun
lap and Robert Johnson.
In the case Of ]. f. Jackson, Thom-
as Christenbury and Harve Michael,
charged with gambling, Michael was
allowed to turn states evidence. jack
son was sentenced to pay fine OF $75
and go to Jail for one day, or pay fine
of s. and be confined sixty days.
Thomas Christenbury was sentenced
to pay fine Of $25 and be confined
one day. or pay a fine of S. and be
confined 80 days.
Walker Hardin. charged with as
sault and battery with intent to Kill,
was convicted of simple assault. The
sentenced was a fine of $25 or 25 days.
Walter Baskins plead guilty to the
charge of violating the dispensary law,
and was sentenced to pay a fine or
500 or serve three months on the
chaingang.
Press Massey was convicted of vio-
lation of the dispensary law and rec
commended to the mercy Of the court.
J.. NJ. McCorkle, charged with as
sault and battery with intent to Kill,
was convicted of simple assault and
sentenced to pay a fine Of $40 or go to
Jail for twenty days. The fine was
paid.
Andrew Witherspoon, charged with
murder, consented to be tried by a
jury Of eleven men, it not being prac-
ticable to obtain a full panel at the
time. The jury returned verdict of
not guilty,
In the case of Ollie Barron and Fos-
ter Wise, charged with larceny, the
Jury returned a verdict Of not guilty
as to Wise and guilty as to Barron.
Barron was sentenced to two years IN
the state penitentiary or upon the pub
lie works of the county.
Cad Dover and Andy Spencer,
charged with violation Of the dispen-
sary law plead guilty as charged and
were each sentenced to pay a fine OF
500 or be confined at hard labor for
three months. Dover paid his fine,
cash.
In the case of j. E. Jackson and
Thomas Christenbury, charged with
assault and battery with intent to kill,
the jury returned a verdict of not
guilty.
Friedman Huey, tried on the charge
of violating the dispensary law, was
acquitted.
Lum Parham plead guilty of keep
ing a gambling place and of violating
the dispensary law. There were quite
a number Of the most prominent citi-
zens of the Bowling Green neighbor-
hood on hand to testify against him,
and his conviction was a foregone con-
clusion. For keeping q gambling
place, the court imposed a sentence OF
500 or three months, and for viola
ton of the dispensary law the fine was
5000 or five months. The fines were
paid in both cases. Judge Watts ad-
vised the prisoner that there was still
another indictment pending against
him, and that If he should come before
this court again, the sentence would
be something uncomfortable.
William Hunter the young white
boy. charged with burning his way out
of the Yorkvlle guard house two years
ago, plead guilty and was sentenced to
serve six months in that part OF the
state penitentiary set apart for the
criminal insane.
Samuel Brown plead guilty to the
charge of assault and battery Of a high
and aggravated nature and was SEN
fenced to pay fine Of $40 dollars or
be confined on the public works of York
county for a period of ninety days.
A good part of yesterday was taken
up with the trial of AL Williams for
the murder of Jim Crockett in Feb
ruary last, Solicitor Henry for the
prosecution and Thomas F. Mellow
for the defense. The testimony show
ta