Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-03-07
MISSISSIPPI
CRIPPLE WINS HIS CASE
CONVICTION OF C. HORN FOR MAN,
SLAUGHTER is REVERSED.
Jutsice Reed UphOlds State in Indicting
cOahOna Man Who Rented House,
Knowing 1t Would Be Used
for Immoral Purposes.

Jaekson.-The judges OF the supreme
court are maintaining the average OF
cases decided from week to week, but,
with all their diligent work, they are still
swamped with work in the consultation
room, and are likely to be for some tims
to come. This was the last sitting for
the term begun the second Monday in
last October, and when the court met
Monday it was to start the March term.
Conspicuous among the decisions hand.
ed down was one by Justice Reed, sus.
tanning the state in a case appealed from
Coahoma county. The appellee had been
indicted for renting a house, knowing
that it vas to be used for immoral pur-
poses. At common law, as pointed out
by the court, the keeping OF a 'bawdy
house is an ~offense, and where one know.
ingly rents property which is to be used
for such traffic, he should be equally
guilty before the law with the unfor.
tunate woman to whom he rents his
property. The case was therefore re.
versed and remanded for trial on the in.
dictment, demurrer to which had been
sustained in the court below.
The celebrated Brent VS.. Brister Saw
Mill Company case, also handled by JUS.
tice Reed, had come up from Lincoln
county, involving a question OF jurisdic.
tion in equity. After a careful review of
the complicated facts involved, the court
held that the court of equity is the trib-
unal for the proper adjustment of the
differences between the minority and ma
jority stockholders in the Brister Saw
Mill Company.
The court also handed down @ decree
in favor of c. Horn, an unfortunate Grip
pie, who, in ~resenting insults and impo-
sition practiced upon him by two men
at Vicksburg, used his cane to such eff.
feet that one of his assailants subse-
quently died from the effect of the blows
which were inflicted with Horns STAFF.
The record showed that the burden Of
testimony was in favor of Horn and the
case was reversed, together with the con-
viction OF manslaughter and two-year
sentence.
Justice Cook rendered a decision in ia
vor OF the appellee in Board of Super
visors of Green County VS.. Shellgrove.
This was an injunction to prevent the
Green county supervisors from entering
into . contract to build a bridge over
chickasahay river, jointly with Wayne
county, which action was attacked on the
ground Of territorial jurisdiction. The
supreme court sustained the chancellor
in granting the injunction, the physical
facts showing that the site of the bridge
was entirely in Wayne county.
In the habeas corpus application for
bail argued last Monday in favor of w.
$. SHINES, from Pamela county, who is
charged with murder and stands COM
mitted without bail, the supreme court
affirmed the lower court, holding that
according to the record SHINES was not
entitled to bail.
Several civil cases of interest to the
bar, owing to legal points involved, were
handed down by the court, including the
complicated case of Scottish Union In
surance Company VS.. Warren Gee Lum-
Der Company, from Forrest county, in
volving large fire losses.