Smyrna times., 1908-10-28
KENT COURT HAVING BUSY
SESSION AND MANY CASES
ElGHTY-SlX INDICTMENTS FOUND
BY THE KENT GRAND JURY

Warren Manlove Convicted and Sen
fenced to Life Imprisonment for
the Murder of lobe Black
Warner ManlOve, colored, was con-
victed of murder of the second de-
gree, calling for life Imprisonment in
the penitentiary, yesterday afternoon,
when his jury came to an agreement
after a number of futile ballots at
seven to five for conviction. The
jury while not taking into considera-
tion the defendants plea that Black
had approached him as though to beat
him as he did the night before,
whereupon he shot him five times,
persuing him down a Dover street, a
distance of 136 feet until he fell dead,
but the jury did consider the youth
of the defendant and spared him from
the gallows, on his contention of pro-
vocation. Deputy Attorney General
Hastings brought out the testimony
of the State, which was that Manlove
persued Black and shot him down
after quarrel over the division of
gambling money. J B. Hutton,
Esq, who was assigned to the de-
fence, advanced the plea of man
slaughter.
In its report to the Court, the Kent
County Grand Jury recommended that
means be found to compel constables
and other peace officers in cases of
felony to make arrests Immediately
or lose their commissions and undergo
punishment for dereliction of duty.
Frequently officers refuse to make
arrests promptly, contenting them
selves with notifying the Attorney
General, with the result that crimi-
nails escape from the jurisdiction of
the state before a State Detective
can arrive. In the six days the
Grand Jury was in session, Sc indict.
ments were found.
Nearly fifty indictments have beer
found in Kent comnty against whis
key speakeasy keepers, violators Of
local option law, and they all ex
pected to get off by clouding the
juries. The mythical third person
was introduced, as was the relative
question of ownership of the liquor.
on the ground that if the vendor wa:
! not the owner then, of course, there
was no sale. The prisoners engaged
Richard R. Kenney, A. D. Marshal
and William P. Shockley to repre-
sent them, and the lawyers went a
> the matter hammer-and-t -tongs fashion
: Chief Justice Lore and Judges
: Pennewill and Grubb put their head
together and delegated Judge Grub
!, to look up all the law and charge tn
juries. He simply disclosed the oil
> accomplice law published as far bacl
as the Code of 1852. Of course, unde
! this law, person acting as a go-be
tween that a law might be violated
= is equally guilty with the actua
! owner or manufacturer. After thi
= charge the effect was amazing
Juries went down and came back i
a jiffy with verdict of guilty, an
r soon dockfull after dockfull of tn
prisoners pleaded guilty. 1t wa
W one of the most dramatic sights eve
witnessed in Kent County court.
The court agreed upon sentenC
is of two months and $50 fine where
'r prisoner pleaded guilty to one indict
g ment. The fines and imprisonment
g were then imposed as follows
1t Alexander Harris, of Dover, 81
e months and 5000 on the indictmer
m to which he pleaded not guilty ar
st stood trial; two months and $50 fine
IS each to two subsequent indictment
a. to which he had pleaded guilty
e, Andrew Pullman, of Dover-si
ne months and 5000 fine on the indictmel
n to which he had pleaded not guilt
be and stood trial. The other indie
ments against him were tetireC
William Shockley, Isaac Vincen
Abraham Rochester, John Merrill
Hannah Laws, N. H. Friggis, Harl
en- Williams, William Wright, ples
guilty and were fined $50 and tv
months Imprisonment on each al
10 every indictment.