The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1920-06-24
COURT PROCEEDINGS
Docket Was Completed Thursday Last
And Court Adjourned.

And Court Adjourned.
With the trial of the last case on
the criminal docket in the Circuit
Court for Garrett county, the June
Term adjourned last Thursday after
noon.
Associate Judge Robert R. Hender.
son, of Cumberland, conducted the
business claiming the attention of the
Court last week, and upon the adj
Journment of the term he returned to
Cumberland.
The cases disposed of during the
week were as follows, not including
several that were continued for vari-
GUS unassigned reasons:
Criminal Appeals.
l. Emory Tasker and Nelson Custer
VS.. the State, both of whom were be-
fore the Court upon the charge of dis
orderly conduct, the latter was found
not guilty and the former guilty, who
was paroled.
2. Porter Wilt vs. State, who was
implicated with Tasker, and Jas. MUIR
ply, also implicated in the same case,
were both found guilty by the Court
and paroled for the term of three
years or pending their good behavior.
Criminal Trials.
4. State VS.. Carl Hunter, larceny
Of $40 in money from Charles Green,
was found guilty by the Court and pa
rolled for three years. =
5. State vs.. Floyd Paugh, indict-
ed for criminally assaulting Elsie
Wilt, was tried before a jury who re-
turned a verdict of not guilty by rea-
son of the insanity of the accused. He
was committed to the Springfield
State Hospital for the Insane by the
Court.
6. State VS.. Howard Johnson, Rod
ney johnson and Robert Moon, three
young boys living near Oakland, who
were indicted for having stolen from
the Baltimore and Ohio warehouse in
Oakland various articles of merchan-
disc, entered plea of guilty The
Court paroled Rodney johnson on ac-
count of his youth while he committed
Howard Johnson and Robert Moon to
the Maryland Training School for
Boys until they respectively attain
the age of twenty-one years.
9. State VS.. Clarence Sell, who was
one of three young men from the vi
entity of Bittinger indicted for having
stolen a quantity of wool from a far
mer in that community last winter,
was found guilty by the Court and
paroled for three years upon condi-
ton that he pay one-fourth the value
of the wool to the owner and the costs
of prosecution.
10. State VS.. Erasmus F. Dove, in
dicted for having stolen a portion of q
blacksmith's outfit at the Taylor-Of-
futt mine, located a short distance
west of Oakland along the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was found not
guilty of the charge.
II. State VS.. Earl Gank; indicted
upon the charge of larceny, was tried
before the Court and a verdict of not
guilty rendered.
ID. State VS.. Robert Stockley, in
dicted for having hunted and shot
game on the Sabbath day, was placed
on trial. During the hearing Of the
evidence in the matter it was brought
out that the alleged infringement
of the law had been committed more
than a year prior to the bringing OF
the indictment, hence he was de-
clared not guilty. :
10. State VS.. William NJ. Hartley,
charged in the indictment with assault
with intent to murder, was tried be-
fore the Court and a verdict of not
guilty was rendered. The accused
man is a mine foreman at one of the
mines along the Potomac river and
the alleged crime was committed when
he was charged with having assaulted
one of the miners in his employ with
a pick handle
16 State VS.. Edith Wagner, who
was charged with having entered an
abandoned house, the property of Mar
garet Murphy, near Swanton, and
stolen therefrom number of dishes,
entered a plea of guilty and was pa
rolled by the Court.
II. State VS.. Harry Reams, stealing
an inner tube from an automobile, was
tried before the Court, found guilty
and paroled.