The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-05
ATK|NSON'S FATE
 IN HANDS OF JURY Charged With Murder of Charles Green Near Mulga WORK OF THE WEEK Blacks Term as Solicitor Has Opened Auspiciously-Eleven Convictions,
 One Acquittal, Six Cases
 Continued During Week
WORK OF THE WEEK

The fate of C. II. Atkinson, charged with the murder of Charles Green at
 Mulga some months ago. is in the hands of the jury which failed to reach a yer dict in the case last night and was sent to the hotel for the night. The case has been on trial before Judge W. E. Fort of the first division of the criminal court for nearly two days and has attracted
 much attention. The defendant claimed the unwritten law and self-defense. Solici- tor H. l.. Black and his assistant, w. s. Welch, represented the state, and A. l.. Arnold and Calhoun & Thomas the de- fendant.
 The arguments of opposing counsel were
 exhaustivN as was the charge of Judge
 Fort. who also read to tine jury over 90 | written charges submitted by the attor- neys for the defense, At late hour last night the jurors announced that they were unable to agree on verdict and were l sent to the hotel for the night. l The first week of the term of Solicitor Hugo l.. Black has been very successful
 and many convictions have been had, all
 the cases set were for capital offenses. | The most important case during the week
 or rather the one on which most interest was centered was that of Robert Todd.
 negro charged with the murder of Joseph w. Alexander. Judge Black took per-
 sonal charge of this case, which resulted | in a conviction of murder in the first degree and life sentence in the peni- | tentiary.
 l Eleven convictions. one aequittal. six cases continued, one transferred to the Bessemer court, one case nolle pressed | and one case on trial Is the result of
 the week. Of the 21 capital cases set for the week eight have been tried by
 Judge W. E. Fort, who organized the docket set for the week: five were tried by Judge s. E. Greene. who also dis posed of large number of misdemeanor cases set in the second division
 Circuit Solicitor Joseph R. Tate assist ed in II cases, having charge of sev- eral of them. Assistant Solicitor Walter Brewer secured the first conviction of the new solicitors office, Pearl Mathews. who was convicted of robbery and given a sentence of 10 years in the pententiary. Two of the defendants plead guilty to a charge of murder and were given sentence of b0 years each in the peni- tentiary. Two defendants were given life sentences.
 Cases and convictions were as follows: RObert IOdo murder, ire imprisonment, Will Baker, murder life Imprisonment; Willie Brooks, murder. 50 years: Clark Harris, murder. 50 years; Mary Alexan- der, robbery, 30 years; Andrew Green.
 murder, 25 years; Savannah White. mur-
 der 10 years; Son Jones' robbery, 10 years; John Glover, murder. Ia years; Pearl Mathews, robbery, 10 years; Ben Reason, larceny from person. one year and one
 day in penitentiary
 Mollie Coleman, charged with robbery,
 was acquitted. The case against Nancy
 Belton. robbery, was nolle pressed. Will Chambers charged with murder was transferred to the Bessemer court. Cases
 continued were: Sam Siccola, criminal as
 sault: George Ellard, murder. Gus Ellard murder; Toney Diadona. criminal assault;
 Juliou Jordan, robbery w. c. Naylor.
 murder. Those convicted during the week will be sentenced this morning.