The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-08-01
ClRCURT COURT
IS IN PROGRESS.
Judge Teat Delivers Strong Charge.
District Attorney on Hand.
List of Grand Jurors.

was unable to reach here on time owing
to the derailment of train, which pre-
vented his reaching Durant in time to
make connection with the train he in
tended to come to Grenada on; but as
soon as he was in the court house he
was busy and quickly had things under
way and business moving along.
Judge Teat's charge to the grand ju-
ry was unique in several particulars.
He placed the grand jury in the atti-
tude of the directors of bank, or any
other business enterprise, and insisted
that they should be just as careful in
reviewing the county's affairs as the
directors of well regulated banks. The
people who toll and who pay the taxes,
the Judge stated, had right to de-
mand and expect that grand juries
should perform their sworn duties. Too
often, the Judge said, grand juries had
SKINNED over affairs and left undone
many important things to the public.
He was especially vigorous in what he
said about the duties of public officers
and Illustrated very plainly the effects
of slip shod discharge of official du-
ties by those entrusted with official
functions. The day has passed, said
the Judge, when things can be done in
a happy-go-lucky manner and meet the
approval of confiding public. He dis
cussed public roads as related to the
!: welfare and progress of communities
and said that communities could no
, more thrive when the avenues of travel
| were blocked or imperfectly cared for
than the body of a human being could be
/ healthy when the arteries or veins Of
! the body were corded or interfered
: with. With good roads and easy ac-
e cess between neighbors and towns the
n better natures of people were given
!, sway, the proper encouragement was
e given the persistent working man and
the spirit of general betterment fos-
tered. Judge Teat said that many
might regard the carrying Of pistol,
gambling or the selling of blind tiger
liquor as innocent things, but he sale
II they are the sources from which mur.
d derers come and the pools from whence
l. robbery, embezzlement and every
!. crime catalogued in the law emanates
p He said that the selling of liquor, tn
n carrying of pistol and gambling wer
e diametrically opposed to honest worl
.e and were enemies to everything that i
IS good in society. Those, he said, tina
c. thought such things did not amount t
y much, were either grossly ignorant o
n their effects or were interested in thei
n. perpetuation. The Judge discusse
it homicides and their Elects. AS an a
la torney, who had frequently been int
sy mately associated with those who ha
H. taken the lives of their fellow-men, ar
I'd as a Judge who had observed the col
s- duct of those who had shed hums
u blood, he stated that there was but or
d. result woe and misery to him wi
takes human life and sorrow and di
tress to the family of him whose life
II, taken. The Judge said that the ma
II who gets murder into his heart shou
W stop to consider that he does not punis
H. the man he kills, but that the dei
mans family are the sufferers and th
his path is beset with torture and tro
: BILE from that day so long as he lives.
The charge was stirring one al
was a strong appeal for faithful dut
He admonished the grand jury not
fritter away its time with trivial ma
ters while important ones were left u
attended to.
District Attorney Thad. W. SEQ
was on hand to zealously guard the il
terests of the state. Mr.. Scott is
good lawyer and good citizen and
making a good record as prosecutil
officer. III two weeks term of cou
lust held at Louisville, Winston count
he got a conviction on every tri'
Somehow Mr.. Scott readily gets t
confidence of the juries and preser
his cases in such way as to make
quittal always doubtful.
T. C. Brown, the efficient stenogl
pher, was ready for duty. Mr.. Bro'
is a most capable man.
Sheriff West is in happy frame
mind and has his work well in hal
and as much can be said about the I
perienced and accommodating circ
clerk, Whitfield King.
Many important cases have bt
tried and the court will no doubt be
session all next week.
J.J. Hardy was made foreman
, the grand jury and j. N. Roberts bail
UP to this writing (Thursday mo
inp) the grand jury has returned
true bills.