The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1915-07-23
TICKET OF STATE
OFFICES IS MADE
STATE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE COMPLETES IT'S
WORK OF NOMINATIONS.
LIFE SENTENCE REVERSED
Supreme Court Sends E. J. Marley
Back to Tallahatchie County For
New Trial.-News Over
the State.

Jackson.
Pursuant to call, the Democratic
state executive committee met here
July 10 to name candidates for state
offices.
A resolution was introduced by ].
l.. Seawright of Alderman, from the
Fourth district, declaring the follow
ing nominees of the party, as being
without opposition, and further de-
claring that it shall not be necessary
for them to have their names placed
on the ballot:
For Secretary of State, ]. w. Power,
Jackson; for Attorney General, Ross
A Collins, Meridian; for Superintend-
ent of Education, w. H. Smith, Jack
SON; for Commissioner of Agriculture,
H. E.: Blakslee, Jackson; for Bank Elk
aminer, First district, E. F. Anderson,
Clinton; for Bank Examiner, Second
district, S. S. Harris, Tupelo.
MarIey's Sentence Reversed.
The supreme court reversed the YER
dict of the jury in T%allahatchie county
circuit court giving a life prison term
to b. J. Marley, a prominent planter
of that county, on a charge of the
murder of T. Y. Wylie. The killing oc-
March Is, 1913.
Many assignment of errors were set
up and the supreme court reversed the
sentence chiefly on the ground that in
the lower court incompetent evidence
was admitted regarding a previous diff
ficulty between Wylie and two men
named Pope and Ferguson, in which
bitter threats were made, and it was
attempted to also connect Marley with
spiracy had beer entered into for the
killing of Wylie.
State Wins Suit.
Insurance Commissioner T. M.
Henry has just won a very important
suit in the circuit court of Kinds coun-
ty, Mississippi, judgment having been
rendered in his favor against the Penn
Mutual Life Insurance Company for
$2,278.54.
The suit was filed by the commits.
sioner pursuant to his ruling of a few
weeks ago, declining to allow life in
surance companies to make any deduc-
tion in their tax statements for divi-
dends except those actually paid in
cash.
In case the supreme court upholds
his contention, it will mean the col
lection by him Of approximately $12,-
900 or $751; 600 yearly in premium tax
es, dating from July 1, 1912.
Supreme Court Far Behind.
With nearly seven hundred cases
pending on its calendar, a volume of
business sufficient to keep the tribu-
nal steadily at work for two years, if
no new cases were filed, the supreme
court on July 10 adjourned for the
summer.
The adjournment is nearly three
weeks later than usual, and the men,
bers of the bench hav been burning
considerable midnight oil throughout
the term in a vain effort to relieve
the c~ongested condition of the docket
Dairy Work Is Extended.
The dairy extension work for Mis-
sissippi is now reorganized and
through the cooperation of the extern
sion department of the A. and M. Col
lege and the dairy division Of the
United States department Of agricult-
ure there will be three men in the
state to assist in the building up of
this much-needed industry. L. A. Hig-
gins, with headquarters at A. and M.
College, Miss, will have charge Of the
work.
Circuit Court Adjourns.
The circuit court adjourned July Is,
after Judge Potter overruled motions
for new trials in the cases of Ebb Wat
kins, the negro convicted of killing
his wife and her mother, Pearl Cocker,
convicted Of highway robbery, and
Herman Day, convicted OF burglary.
Coker was sentenced to serve three
years, and Day one year In the peni-
Tertiary. He was found guilty Of as
saulting and robbing "Uncle Bill
Lem1y in an abandoned house on
South State street more than q year
ago. Lemly is an elderly negro dray-
man. Day was convicted of burglar
izing the department store Of s. ].
johnson company.
Seeks Lost Relative
The State treasury department has
received a letter of inquiry from j. C.
Hudson, a grocery merchant of Rock
Hill, s. c., in hopes that through that
agency he may be able to secure in
formation relative to an uncle. John
Thomas Hudson. Mr.. Hudson writes
that 81 have an uncle in your state,
somewhere, I do not know in what
county, and l do not know whether
he Is dead OF alive Chief Clerk Ba-
ker, in charge Of the treasury. who is
custodian Of. the letter, finds the in.
| formation rather too vague
Appeals TO Commute Sentence
While no formal petition has been
filed. great personal efforts,are being