The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-02-03
COURT DOCKET
IS contested
uUfnls or JUSTICE GRIND
SLOWLY WHEN HtEkh..f
Is DESIRED.
CASES G00VER
Judge Ha@kins iisasis II Necessary
e. tsise Attention 10 Jail Docket
sisst---ssapp Brothers
80 Informed.

Win congessed docket staring
him in the face and experiencing
aiffieaIty IN getting cases to trial
Judge r. L. Hawkins IL fighting
aard % relieve the congestion oF
,fa district court criminal docket,
yet whfle be Is trying 70 put Eases
ID Eflsl wiki listle success the grand
ary IL plilne up additional work
for the eoart
About the oniy solution of the
situation ~ To eef The bill, reported
atotabiy by the house committee,
e make Ellis county separate
Judicial district, enacted into Law
50 court can start Oh a continuous
esina until the doekets are cleared
! Is ii stands the district judge can
/ nos hope 10 DO more than put he
I iaii docket eases To trial and let the
1 bonded cases go over until another
term
TIE .ue cases against ]. r. A..
FoWers ard tie two eases against
stacy Powers were continued until
nezt tarm OF court on account OF
lfha tins of the court being taken
ta With eeaes whore the defendants
/ ere held Ia taiI J h. A. Powers
/ and hia son are held in connection
With the murder OF ]. NJ. McCarty
! and his son Travis. The younger
] aIecarty was d son-in-law of ]. h.
"a Powers.
+ The John Ticer case. charged
! with murder and wtite-capping, was
oeagipaea ahuE next term Of court.
lat5fDatler was made that County
Attorney Henry TREY would make
motion to dismiss the murder case
against Tteer. but no such motion
has yet been filed.
The rueraar ease against Rettie
0@r5 @as sst for FOB, %
a Slp @as aszcssed sgalnst
seal IeNeJisn for iysebne court
~ oae Z eaar. thereby causln 9
1Hs,aspee NJ e.e taso
clE hoaon Tie ipa.@me4t chars-
g D. r. Mares Wilh traudnlsntly
4leposiag merg eed properts
eas qaasheI
sanford Clark. criminal assault
c5sa, was continued Oh account OF
lslI docket taking ap time Of court.
Frank Thomas Jr. charged wlsh
murder, set for February %
Henderson Butler. murder. set
faf February %.
AZ the conclusion OF a perusai Of
tae docket ard resetting eases that
! could 6e SGT. Judge Hawkins sent
tor the sapp Brothers. brought here
I on 2 change Of venue from Ange-
itaa eouHty. and announced to them
tsaG il would be impossible 10
reach thcir cases during the present
tetm 81 court Judge Hawkins lntl
mated that he might do such thing
as transfer the case. bu, made no
! definite announcement concerning
/ that matter The defendants init
aated that habeas corpus proceed
+ ne would be instituted to deter
E+ae #hatter or not they should
aa allowed bond as soon as the
case is properly changed To tbis
teca5tE, 81 rather as soon as tins
! records yesca acre. I'VE have heard
naeh about the district Judge Here 70
said H. e. sapp to II news reporter.
5Hd are confidont We can eet IA
fan aaa Impartial trial here. We
doat aaat anything more than a
fair Trial aud are willing 10 abide
tae result OF such trial.
The elder sapp declared he and
hia brother bad been regular tonr-
lists during the twentYstbree months
tteS iaFe been under arrest By
f order ot che courts and sheriff.
ftey have been on the road a con
I siderable portion nj 'he time we
( were changed TO four different
counted and for a time were sepa-
tetea We have undergone a grill
F. inE that would have caused any one
to bfeak down II they were telling
manufactured story, bul we have
1 ao complaint % make for when we
Sc before an anprejuaieed Jury we
+ Ill bn acquitted. said T. e. sapp.
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