The Columbus weekly dispatch., 1908-05-03
JUDGE COCHRAN'S
LAST COURT TERM
THE MAY TERM OF CIRCUIT
COURT, WHICH CONVENES \
WEEK FROM MONDAY, WILL
BE MIR. COCHRAN'S LAST.
Judge Buckley Has Been Appointed
to Succeed Meridian Jurist, and
VIII Hold His First Court
Here i'm September.

The spring term of circuit court,
which convenes on Monday, May
11th, Will be one of unusual interest,
as it will be the last local court term
over which Judge r. F. Cochran will
preside Judge COchran's term eX-
pires in June, and Gov. Noel several
weeks ago appointed Hon. John L.
Buckley, of Enterprise. TO succeed
him. Judge Buckley is one of the
leading jurists of the State, and his
friends are predicting for him a bril-
liant career on the bench.
Judge Cochran's administration
has been rather spectacular and is
differently viewed by his local con-
stituents according to their various
ideas of justice. He has many friends
who uphold his policy and indorse
his entire course, while there are
others who claim that his admins
tration has been too inconsistent to
result in material benefit to the COM
munity, drastic measures having
been resorted to in some cases, while
in others extreme leniency was
shown.
AS far as the business to be dis
posed of is concerned, the coming
term will be one of average impOr-
tance The civil docket is rather
large and the State docket is unusu-
ally small, containing, all told, less
than a dozen cases. These cases are
for the most part of an unimportant
nature, the criminal case most likely
to incite public interest being the one
against Tracey Green and Mrs. Ira
cey Green, who are charged with
manslaughter On October 29th,
1907, Mrs Green shot and killed Ed
Dooley at the store of her husband
near the Mobile and Ohio depot and
Green is held as an accompIice. Mrs.
Green at the preliminary trial was
placed under bond to await the ac-
tion of the grand jury. She was in
dicted, and the case was set for trial
at the November term of circuit
court, but owing to the illness OF one
of her attorneys was postponed until
the May term. Mrs. Green and her
husband are represented by Judge
j. A. Orr and Hon. 4. p. Landrum,
while District Attorney Currie will
conduct the prosecution.
Another case carried over from
the November term is the suit of Mrs.
Nellie NoIand, administrative Of the
estate of Henry holland, deceased.
This case. which IS on the civil dock
ct, was thrown out last year on ac-
count of a technical error in the bill
of complaint, but plaintiff was given
leave to amend the bill, and the case
will come up for trial at the APP
preaching term. The suit is for
$4,000, and comes as a result of
the death of the plaintiffs husband
the late Henry Noland, who was
killed last year in an accident on the
Southern Railway. Mrs. Noland is
represented by Hon. ". P. Stribling,
while the interests of the Southern
Railway are in the hands Of Hon. 2
P. Landrum.
The grand jury viii be called upon
to act on at least one case of great
Importance, and it will become their
duty to examine into the killing of
Mr. Joe Mahon, who was stabbed by
Mr. Eugene Foster one night last
February, and died few days there
after This case does not appear
upon the docket, but Mr.. Foster,
who had a preliminary hearing short
" after the killing. was placed under
bond to await the action Of the grand
jury, and that body will naturally in
yestigate the case and return an in
dictment. Mr.. Foster will be defend
ed by Hon. z. p. Landrum, while the
family of the deceased has retained
Hon. ]. l. Harrison of this city and
Hon. Robert Miller, of Haz1ehurst, to
assist District Attorney Currie in pre-
senting the case.
The civil docket contains two
twenty thousand dollar suits. the sec
ond being that of Mrs. Maggie Fites
vs.. the Bell Lumber and Manufac-
turing Company. Mrs. Fites is the
mother of Clifton Mcdaniel, the |
young man who on February 28th, |
1908, met with an accident at the
plant of the lumber concern which |
resulted in his death few days |
later. In her declaration plaintiff al |
leges that the accident resulted from |