The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1918-08-30
BOND IS FIXED At SlO,OOO.OO
Bond Furnished Immediately
And The Defendant Was Re-
leased. Lieut.. Governor Lee
M. Russell Retained BY MIR.
Goodwin to Present The
Case In The Supreme Court.

I'VE, The Jury, Find The De-
fendant Guilty of Manslaughter'
was the verdict returned in the Good
win case. The verdict was returned
into court Thursday evening about
$50 o'clock. But owing to the fact
that Atty. w. f. Hamilton who
represented the defendant, had left
on the early afternoon train for
Camp Gordon, Ga. where he was or
dered to report for military duty,
Mr.. Goodwin was without counsel so
the court deferred pronouncing SEN
tence at that time and took a recess
until 8 o'clock the following morning
thus giving the defendant an oppor-
tunity to procure counsel.
When court re-convened this. Fri
day, morning Hon. Lee M. Russell Of
Oxford who had been retained ap-
peared in behalf of the defendant.
Atty Russell implored the court to
be as lenient as possible in his SEN
tence, as defendant had always borne
good reputation-had never been
in any kind of trouble before, and
hoped he would take these facts in
consideration in determining the sem
tence.
The court thea fixed the sentence
at Is years in the state penitentiary
Atty. Russell then filed motion
for new trial, which the court i'm
mediately overruled Then the de-
fendant made application for bail
pending an appeal to the the supreme
court, which application the court
sustained, fixing the bond at sic, 900.
The defendant Immediately made the
bond and was released from custody.
Following is enmnlete report of
the trial of the case:
Monday morning at 9 o'clock Cir
cult Court convened for the second
week of the special session. The
Goodwin case having been previosuly
set for that hour and special venire
OF jurymen summoned to report at
that time, as soon as court convened
the case was Immediately taken up
and proceeded to trial.
History of The Case
On December 8, 1917, George Good
win shot and killed CASTOR Mitchell
in the railroad yards near what is
known as the "Block" crossing on
Martin street The men were mem
bers Of the night switching crew and
the killing occurred about II o'clock
at night while the men were engaged
IN their usual work. Mr.. Goodwin
was arrested at his home soon after
the killing occurred and claimed that
he shot Mr.. Mitchell in self defense.
A few days later after his arrest
Mr.. Goodwin was given preliminary
hearing before Judge ]. X. Fulson
and Judge C. L. Chadwick and was
admitted to BAH in the sum of S2,-
500. In June the grand jury return
ed a true bill or Indictment against
Mr.. Goodwin charging hm v-its ~aur-
der in the first degree for the killing
Of Mr.. Mitchell, and the defendant
was again taken into custody, A few
days later through his attorney Mr.
Goodwin under habeas corpus pro-
ceedings before Judge E. D. Dinkins,
made application for bail. AT this
hearing Judge Dinkins denied the ap-
plication and refused the defendant
bail.
District Attorney Richard Denman
is assisted by Hon. w. |. Stone Of
cotfeeville in the prosecution while
the defendant is represented by Hon.
w. F Hamilton Of Water Valley.
About 30 witnesses were subpoenaed