The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-26
MOTION IN DAVIS
CASE OvERRULED
February 6 Set by Court as Date
When Trial Will
Begin.
NO MORE PRELIMINARIEs
Negro Forger Wanted in Many
Places-Other Peters
burg News.
NO MORE PRELIMINARIEs
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Petersburg. Va, January 20.
In the Hastings Court to-day. III the
matter Of the .Appomattox Trust Com
pany cases. In which Charles Hall
Davis and Carter K. Bishop are under
indictment FOR "mbezzlcment, prelimi-
mary motions and pleas in bar wcro
uied by Mr.. Davis. all Of which were
oVerruled by the court.
The first motion made by the de-
2cndant. Charles Hall Davis, was:
Pursuant TO III. suggestion con-
tanned in the order Of the Supreme
Court OF Appeals, in the case Of Charles
Hall Davis and Arthur kyle Davis. his
ball. tho defendant. Charles Hall Davis.
moves the court 10 dismiss the pend
Ing indictment and each count thereof,
because tn; oncnses charged In the
said Indictment and in each count
thereon were embraced in the former
indictments. which have been dis
missed. and ne now tenders ia evil
deace the said former dismissed in
dio;nents. the pending indictment, No.
10. and the record OF tho former pro-
+eedinss in connection with this lndict
nnant and the former dismissed indict-
Snents, and offers TO prove that this
defendant is the identical person re-
ferred 10 IN all of tho said ind!ct-
rnents."
To thin motion Commonwealth At
to!ncy r, H. Mann alcd ansxer as
follows:
"Richard II. Mann. attorney for the
Commonwealth of the city of Peters-
5uTg. who prosecutcs in thir behalf
In the Hastings Court. comes and OPP
Uosea tho motion Of said defendant for
discharge. as set out in his written
7notion this day Med and says that
tho cnenses charged IN the dismissed
indictments rendered In evidence with
SAID motion arc not, nor Is any one or
more OF ;hem, the game al ell or any
onc or moro OF the onenscs charged
IN the pending !:::!!::alcnt: and the said
defendant has not been heretofore dis
charged from prosecution for any one
p: moro OF the onenscS charged in the
q'endinc Indictment
Tho second motion uiadc by the de-
fsndnnt was ito require the attorney
for the Commonwealth to state upon
what counts he relies as setting forth
omenses not embraced In the indtct
rncnts which have been heretofore dis
missed. and that the court, with tho
aid OF counsel do proceed 10 determine
upon which counts tho Accused may
now properly be tried, and thus clint
nate much that would tend 10 confus.
tho material iasues and greatly pro-
tract the trial"
The Commemorative attorneys an
ewer TO this motion was tina. he relied
on all the counts
These motions were ovcrrulcd a.
was motion TO require the attorney
Tor the Commonwealth 10 turnini, an
enlarged and more detailed bill of par
ticulars descriptive OF the acts charged
in the pending Indictment.
Three pleas In bar because OF for
Tncr discharge were offered by the de-
rcndant. nll of which the court rejected.
On all OF the above motions the iden-
lily OF the defendant In the pending in
hiotment with the person charged in
the dismissed indictments wns admit
ted The indictments, both the pres
ent one and those dismissed, were be-
fore the court. and the court heard the
evidence OF d. H Wilcox as TO the