The Big Sandy news., 1911-04-14
CIRCUIT COURT.
--
The Grind Began Last Mon
day at This Place.
Grand Jury IS Said 10 be Making a
Special Investigation OI
Vote Selling,

The April term Of the Lawrence ,
Circuit Court began on Monday last
Judge ]. b. Hannah presiding. the |
Commonwealth's Attorney for this
d,strlct, John NJ, Waugh, was pres
ent as usual, watchtul Of the inter-
ests Of the state Few non-resi-
dent attorneys we're present at the
openlng OF court, and not many have
been present since, Following eus- 4
tom the first business TO engage
the attention OF the court was the
impanolIng oi the grand jury The
following named were impaneled
and sworn: n
]. T. Griffith, l. II. Borders, Dan
Blankenship, d. D, Woods. Lon Wax
Ter, l.. d. webb. NJ Harmon, Jas,
X. Fuller, r. ]. Toler, Augustus
Snyder. J. NJ. Wheeler Robt. Rug
gies Mr. snyder is foreman. /
Judge Hannah then delivered one /
OF the strongest and most comprc-
honsiye charges ever given to a
grand Jury in the county Of Law
renee. For a few minutes oniy the (
bar and the officers OF the court lis
tened an the usual perfunctory sort
OF way. and then all At once they |
sat mp and gave ear The Judge /
paid his respects to vote buyers as
ven rs vote sellers In no uncertain /
terms There had been no hint that
ne would talk along this line, al
though there were many who
thonght be would say something re-
gardlng this deBasing ofiens5 speak
ing along another line Judge Han
nah charged officers aud juries'
both grand and petit, generally, not
those OF this county specially with
being responsible with much OF the
crime now peryading the country, of-
ficers must be more dillgent In en-
forcing the law and jurics must be
more prompt In finding out and
more rigid IN punishing according
10 law. all offenders. An good citi-
gems are hoping that the charge giy-
en- viii be the means OF causing the
prompt and eondign punishment OF
ali offenders and thus be the means
OF Kidding the city and county, for
n time at least, OF some very unde-
sirable characters.
Following the formation Of the
grand jury came the impaneling Of
the twenty-four citizens and house
keepers. who will try the cases set
for the present term:
Hiram Bentley, Lefe Moore, Jas,
Morton. ]. b. Thompson, Henry
Bishop, Charley Morris, A. J, Belch-
er, W. A. Arlington. Kenna Cyrus,
Lindsey wellman, T. " Ball Doc
Green, Felix Adams, Ben Vanhorn,
Il. L. Moore. G. V, Burton, L, w.
Spencer, J. r. Boiling, Luther Laney,
o. B. stump. G, G. Roberts, 7, O.,
Johnson. Joe Kitchen, D. A o'Daniel
The case OF the Commonwealth
against John Damron, charged with
the murder OF Victor Caperton on
the second of last July and set for
trial Thursday, was continued on
motion OF the defendant until the
next term OF the court, He is out
on bail
The grand Jury has already made
several special reports. embracing
large number OF indictments. Most
OF these we're against persons who
were in Jail or out under bond, Carl
Price. who is now in Jail, was In
diuted for bigamy Some time age
he married a woman In Catlettsburl
Later, not deferred by the high pric
OF living, he took another help
mate" this time In lronton. o. i
Is thought he viii. be sent to thai
place for trial
Two indictments we're returne
against Mllt Caperton, OF this city
One was for cutting with inten
TO kill, the victim being young Flan
nary, former student of the X. N
O., and resident of pike county.
a The assault was committed abou
} two weeks ago and was mentioned
in this paper caperton was ais
indicted for an assault upon tn
person OF John Damron. notice,
elsewhere in these columns, and al
legged TO have been committed o.
the night Of Monday last. He wa
held to bail in the sum Of $500