The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1910-05-05

Are you tlIeQT we aSkSQ
young man in the court house yarc
Saturday afternoon. No." he answer
5 ed. What case are you in" None
: I am just looking on" Probably the
one who didn't have to be there, who
could come or 60 as he pleased didn'i
get so tired. But by Saturday most oi
!: the crowd was completely worn out.
!. Judge, jury lawyers, litigants, witnesses
and court officers were completely worn
out.
For this has been a hard term oi
court All the attorneys say that they
never before saw week of court in
which so much work was done. As a
rule about half the cases on the docket
are tried, the rest being continued.
And of the cases to go to trial large
percent are usually tried by the court
without a jury. This time in most all
the cases both sides announced ready
for trial and they wanted jury. To
cut expense as much as possible
Judge Moore held court every night
of the week except Thursday, and he
insisted that lawyers, litigants and wit
nesses stay close at hand so that they
could be had when wanted. There
is nothing more tiresome than waiting
and the witnesses who waited around
all week were as tired as the lawyers
who worked. There were twenty-five
jury cases tried during the week and
that was certainly going some.
It was nearly midnight when court
adjourned Saturday night and it is said
that there was large number repaired
from there to the Masonic hall where
several degrees were conferred and it
was growing daylight when they closed.
One of the funniest incidents of the
whole court occurred Saturday after
noon in the case of Ladd VS. Hunt.
This was a civil suit concerning the
possession of the cattle formerly owned
by Ladd which H H. Thomas sold to
Hunt, and for which transaction Tho
mas pleaded guilty to embezzlement
and received sentence of two years
in the penitentiary. Ladd was on the
stand. He is small man and very
nervous. Judge George ssThornbery
was his attorney, and Mr.. McConkey,
attorney on the other side, was cross
examing Ladd. McConkey would ask
"a question and Thornberry would OBJ
ject, but Ladd would just go on answer
ing the question without paying any at
tention to his attorney or waiting for
the decision of the court. Thornberry
stood itsas long as he could but finally
blurted out, Now see here, Mr.. Ladd
can't beat you and McConkey both"
There was a case in court last week
which has caused US to do a lot of
thinking. A young man whom we
will call BODY Brown, because that isn't
his name, was indicted for carrying |
concealed weapons. Jimmy White was
the prosecuting witness. He had been
called before the grand jury last fall
and when questioned had given the
information on which the indictment
was found.
It is not our purpose to discuss the
guilt or innocence of Bobby Brown.
Twelve good men under oath heard
the evidence and pronounced him
not guilty. What we want to talk about
is the treatment Jimmy White got in
that trial. Jimmy is young man OF
humble parentage. Considering his
advantages we know of no young man
who has done more to make something
of himself. He bears good reputation
in TACT so good that the defense IN
the case made no attempt to impeach
it by evidence. But when the attorney
for the defense got up to make his ad-
dress to the jury he sailed straight in
into Jimmy. He zinsinuated that Jimmy
was a liar, perjurer, idiot and about
everything else he could think of. It
must be trying on any man young o.
old to have to sit and hear lawyer be-
mean him when that LAWYER did not ]