The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-13
MOTION FOR CHANGE or VENUE
ovEasuLED BY JUDGE NOUN
cER-Hosss FIRST.
49, ~sfss
STATE SENATOR'S CASE
SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY
a
Heated Argument Follows Request Of
Defense for Bill Of PartIcuIars-ple-
taphone 10 Expected to Play Proml-
nsnt Part In Proceedings.

vicksburg, Miss, Dec 13.-Senator
G. A. Hobbs will be placed on trial in
Warren county on a charge Of bribery
Tuesday morning. His trial will be
followed by that of Lieutenant Gov
crnor Theodore Bilbo on a similar
charge. This announcement came
after the motion for change of venue
was overruled. Judge Mounger had
heard a large number of defense wit
nesses on this motion who testified on
their direct examination that in their
J opinion the sentiment of the people OF
this county is such that it will be inn
possible for the defendants to receive
a fair trial in Warren county.
The witnesses were cross-examined
at length by attornery for the state.
They testified on cross examination
that while this sentiment in Warren
county exists. they personally could
give the defendants fair trial.
The change Of venue was refused
after the defense had concluded its tes-
timony and had made a motion for
bill of particulars. which after some
;. salty arguments. the court overruled.
n Mr.. Cassidy, for the defense, said that
q he understood that the state had pre-
d pared a typewritten record Of the case
and they would like to know something
to 70 on in order that they could be
= prepared to make . defense District
Attorney Thames said 1t was not true
- that they had such record. and *
=, they mad there was no power to make
them show It; certainly the defense
knew whether they were guilty or not
NC guilty.
es Mr. Cassidy then said that II they
l. were not given something to go on,
q. then It resolved itself down to the fact
ed that it was not a court Of justice, but
a game Of trickery.
ny Judge Mounger at this juncture over
~ ruled the motion. The court then
e granted motion of severance and
the defense said that they would like
leu to know who would be tried first Mr.
Thames said they had no objection
whatever to saying that Senator Hobbs
would be the first one tried.
How jury Was Drawn.
p0 The defense prepared a motion ask
IbN ing that insofar as the jury box from
which the original jury had bee
drawn was illegal, they would as
mis- that in selecting jury in the cas-
flee they be permitted to have the po
POLK books brought into court out of whic
ena- 800 names be drawn, and from thel
oun- one hundred be taken, from which tt
erm jury is to be made up. This motto
an brought forth bitter arguments, N
Thames contending that such a moti'
ator cast stigma on the court officials al
tho the court, to grant it would be to bra
ono the stigma upon them.
~. Mr. Cassidy for the defense said I'll
g.. no such stigma was intended and
.,~e was merely to avoid getting 90
mans jury that they asked for su
action.
Judge Mounger, after hearing ar
ments on legal points granted the ]
ton saying that he did so not with I
reflection upon the sheriff or any {
but to save time, and he also said
A the grand jury had been properly
II legally drawn and IL this was quest
- ed the Supreme Court was the rem'
The District Attorney requested
Lieutenant Governor Bilbo and s.
It Uni Ftor Hobbs be arraigned and they "
iation. both entering pleas of not guilty to
ht was bribery charges. II
health Today and Monday in the CHI
Univer- Court will be devoted to the trar
ton Of other matters. There Is a
d. that der case. that of w. H. Holiday, I
Atlanta, ing and this will probably be the
'onville matter taken up.
sion on The court has only two weeks 10
expect to run and it is generally belieye
. a one most of this time will be taken up
colleges the Bilbo- Hobbs trials.
or less 1t Is understood that attorney
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