The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-07-19
-FOUR JURORS ARE SECURED OUT
Of l26 WHICH WERE EXAMINED


torney, who is building up splendid
reputation, J. A. Morris, of Jesup,
who is said to have more friends
than any man in Wayne, and who
figures in most of the litigation in
that county and Ernest Dart of this
city, adipose and rotund but with
out doubt the best orator in the
whole bunch. who does his work be-
fore the jury and does it well.
Lined along the tables with their
| respective attorneys is J. Pierce
Smith, brother Of the dead man, S.
A. Granger of Grangerville, whose
| daughter, Miss Georgia May, was the
| fiancee of Fleming Smith, when the
Lyons bullet laid him low, and who
| is now i'll and cannot attend the trial.
Mrs. Sam Surrency, his mother and
| Mrs. D. Hops Bennett, his sister, in
heavy mourning, the ladies' excited
! sympathy from those in the court
| room. On the other side were Miss
| Abbie Lyons, daughter of w. B. Ly-
ems aud Mrs. Archie Lyens, wife of
| the young defendant, together with
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Lyons of Val
dosta who is a brother of the elder
Lyons. These are the two contend.
ing forces now in battlement and the
prize is the enforcement Of the d.
vine law ''an eye for an eye. tooth
for tooh' the human lives at stake,
being mere atoms in the awful strug-
gle
That the Lyenses did not want to
face a jury at this time is true te-
yond question and was demonstrated
/ by the tactics of the attorneys FIR
the defense, who first moved to con
! tirue for the term on the ground
! that two material witnesses were ab-
sent, s. J. Girned, of Hortense. and
Elias Rawlins, of Remington. Tie
! state objected and Barney Lyens,
, brother of the elder defendant, was
! placed on the stand to establish the
fact that Rawlins, who is his broth
| er-in-law, had been duly summoned.
A long examination followed, con-
Quoted by John w. Bennett, for the
| prosecution after which Judge Con-
| yers over ruled the motion and ord
cred the prisoners to trial, announc-
| ing that he would furnish special
| bailifs to bring the missing Witnesse 5
into court. The jury list was thea
called and the first six men were
about to go on their voir doir. when
w. w, Bennet, leading counsel for
dnfAn
to postpone trial On the ground that
the case had never been legally trans
ferred to Glynn superior court, in so
much as transcript Of the record
had not been sent to the clerk It
was established, however, that the
original record was in the office of
the clerk of Glynn superior court. 50
Judge Conyers again over ruled the
motion and the striking of the jury
was preceded with.
Slow Progress Made.
AS SION as the first few panels of
jurors mad been examined 5t was
realized that the matter Of securing
the jury would be very difficult In
all $50 jurors had been summoned
and of this number 1875 were exam
ined. The first juror to de examined
was George Owens, a member of
the local police force ard he, like
other during the day, went down for
cause. Quite a large number were
examined before a single one quail
flied. Finally, A. w. Lane proved to
be the first juror not to go down for
cause. He was accepted by the
state, but excused by the defense.
It was quite a long while after the
examining Of the jurors begun be-
fore a single man took a seat in the
jury box J. A. Williamson. a well
known farmer, was the first to be
told to take seat on the jury. He
was followed in turn by Thomas Liv-
ingston, farmer, of Brookman, R. M.
Hicks, of the Mutual Light and Wa
ter company, and Allan Dubberly,
farmer, who resides several miles
from the city.
Although number of other jurors
qualified during the afternoon, not a
single one of them was accepted
and when court recessed for the aft
ernoon only these four men were oc-
cupying places in the jury box
In all 126 men were examined; of
this number 16 qualified, ten were
stricken by the defense and two by
the state and four were accepted by
both sides. The defense is allow
ed in all 40 strikes and the state 20,
therefore the defense still has 80
while the state, having exercised on
ly two, has IS left.
Extra Jurors Drawn.
Late in the afternoon the first list
of drawn jurors was entirely exhaus-
ted and the court found itself at a
standstill. The remainder of the af-
ternoon was devoted to drawing ex-
ira jurors and in all $50 new names
were drawn from the box The sub
poenas were at once issued and the
aliifs started out at once issuing
them to the jurors, who are ordered