Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1915-02-04
CRIMINAL CASES HAVE BEEN SET
FOR THE SECOND WEEK
OF THE TERM.
LARGE CRIMINAL DOCKET
Some Cases Disposed of and Work of
Court Swiftly Shaped For Term
BY Judge Steele.

District Court was convened by Judge
Steele Monday morning at 10 O'Clock
the members OF the local bar being
present the judge having come up from
Lewiston Saturday evening to Grange
vile to hold the spring term. This week
is devoted to the settling o. cases for
trial, filing informations, arranging de-
PENDANTS in the criminal cases and dis
posing of cases to be heard by the court,
and like business which must be dis
posed of before the jurymen arrive next
Monday.
Judge Steele addressed the members
of the bar briefly outlining the court
work to be disposed of at this term of
court. The docket reveals the presence
of large volume Of work to be handled
and as only five weeks are allotted for
the term, that time will prove short
enough, even though Judge Steele has
disposed of several cases at the present
writing and before the end of the week
will have disposed of several more.
The Criminal Calendar.
The criminal cases so far set for trial
or continued are as follows:
State VS.. j. H. Smith, charge of mur-
der, set for Monday, February s, at
$500 a. m.
State VS.. Bies, Dorsch and Gibson,
charge of assaulting an officer, set for
Wednesday. February 10.
State vs.. huffman, charge of grand
larceny, set for Thursday, February IL.
State VS.. Deering, charge of grand
larceny, set for Friday, February 12.
State VS.. McKinnon, charge of en-
bezzlement, set for Saturday, February
13, at 900 CLOCK a. m.
The above cases wtre the only cases
set for trial up to Thursday and will
more than take up the time of the Sc
cond week of the term. The case of the
State VS.. Frank Hye was left to be set
later. The following cases were con-
tinued
State VS.. Wider, charge of grand
larceny, continued for term. Import
ant witnesses not in state.
State VS.. Fowler, charge of assault
with intent to murder, continued for
term. Prosecuting witness out of
state.
State VS.. Frank Hye, charged with
murder, set for trial on Monday, Feb.
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Civil Calendar.
The civil cases set for trial Thurs.
day are as follows:
drangeville Savings & Trust Co., VS..
Gibson, Wyatt and Smith, set for Mon
day, Feb ID.
w. L. Campbell VS.. Eva l.. Garfield,
set for Wednesday, Feb. II.
Lola Blanche Murphy VS.. Walter
Lynn Brown, set to follow Campbell vs.
Garfield.
Idaho National Harvester Co. VS.
Isaac Fowler, set for Thursday, Feb.
1S, at a. m.
Davis Bros, VS.. Samuel Bicklet to
follow Harvester Co. VS.. Fowler.
Southwest National Bank VS.. Linds
ley, ct al, set for Friday, Feb. 10 at
9 a. m.
The Free Press outlined the work
of the term last week, classifying the
cases and indicating that the court
cases would largely be disposed of dur
ing the first week of the term, and
that the criminal cases would next be
disposed of leaving the civil jury ceses
for the latter end of the term. The
work for the week by days is as fol
lows:
Mondays Work.
Mondays work consisted princi
pally of filing informations and ar
Ranging defendants in the criminal
cases. The first arraignment was thai
Of Frank Hye, charged with the murder
of his wife, and the information being
read 20 him by the clerk, the defen
dant by his attorney w. N. Scales asked
that defendant be granted until Tues
day to plead.
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