Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1912-01-28
!, many CASES IN
SUPREME COURT
s TWO MURDER CASES FROM JET.
FERSON COUNTY ARE TO BE
DISPOSED OF.
RHEA AND NICHOLS
Attorney General COnfesses Error in
the Hydrick Case-The Red Fox
Case Will Also Come Up.

Little Rock, Jan. 27.-There are a
large number of important state
cases appealed to the Supreme Court
now In the hands of the Attorney
General to be briefed. Look at the
pile of work and then talk about my
running for Attorney General" re-
marked Assistant Henry Rector.
Several of the cases are for MUIR
der. Among the most notable are:
Dick johnson and Andrew Read,
colored, st. Francis county, murder
in first degree, sentenced to hang
Jan. 10.
w. T. Nichols, white man. Jeffer-
I son county, sentenced to hang JAM
, 26 for KILLING his wife. They had
kbeen having domestic trouble for
sonle time, and suit for divorce was
pending in court, when he cut her
throat. It is claimed the court erred
in refusing change Of venue.
l. P. BarnhiN and D. L. Rogers.
Greene county, convicted Of violating
the peddling law and fined $500
eacM
Tom Kelley, Of Monroe county,
convicted in Prairie county OF cleo
ton fraud, and sentenced to peniten-
tiary.
Arthur Cook, Garland county. re-
duction, one year IN prison.
w. 8. Rhea, white MAN, Jefferson
county. convicted Of murder In first
degree tor leading negroes who KILL
ed Constable vital Archard, and sent
known what grounds reliance Will
enced to hang Jan. 26. Since fall
IRE Of defendants contention that
!. Indictment was insufficient, it is not
me placed upon for new trial.
IRIS. Morris, president defunct
Rank of siloam Springs, convicted OF
receiving funds after bank was
known to be insolvent, and sentenc-
ed TO three years in penitentlary'
One unique feature of the brief Tor
the defense is the printing upon the
Rck of the pamphlet clippings from
> Font Smith and a Little Rock pa
per. referring to the conviction NOV
2. last. Of an aged banker who was
a physical wreck at the time. His
cashier, Fred A. Davey, who was
given similar sentence on similar
charge appeared at the penltentlary
Jan Is, and began his term
J. M. Fox, Polk County, false pre-
lenses, three years.
George Petty, Polk County, violat-
ing act passed in 1905 providing for
election of cotton weighers in Polk'
Howard, Columbia, Garland, Mont
gomery, Nevada, White end ClarN
Counties. Tt is charged in the in-
dichment that in 1910 Petty "attept-
ed TO weigh cotton sold and market
ed in the town of Mena," nothwith-
standing that at the time j. II. Sims
-Use duly elected and acting as Of
fiSaal cotton-weigher. Petty testl-
fies that he has no recollection OF
having weighed cotton himself, but
that his clerks and employees weigh
ed cotton on his scales, after he had
bought it. 1t Us contended by appel
liant that evidence does not show
violation Of the act, but II 1t does'
that the act is unconstitutional, both
de>yhich is denied by the state.
SRed Fox, Washington county. con-
yicted Of accessory to robbery and
sentenced to three years fmprison-
ment. The verdict was returned
Nov. Z, after Fox had been tried
four times. on a charge OF hav1ng
been accessory to the murder OF
Mrs. Carrie Winkelman, August 49,
1910. in vacant house in Fayette-
vile. and each trial resulted In
hugh jury One Gus Sartin, charg-
cd with the murder was trailed for
over year, and finally arrested IN
sacramento, where he confessed tine
Ind committed suicide IN jail.
~ ieh FOX was tried for robbing Mrs.
Winkelman OF $4,000. One OF the
interesting features Of the case is
the question whether the crime was
robbery. stealing from the person.
- larceny, Stealing from room or
on inanimate object. II Mrs. Wink
elman was robbed before she was
x,lled. 1t was robbery, as charged
=, tho Indictment, but If not until
o,tar daath. then was larceny and
= & eontended the indictment is IN
suffs $500. 49,
the attorney general coniesses .e ea-
,,r in the case Of I. p. HydricE' con-