The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1920-02-18
PERJURERS
ARE SCORED
JUDGE BROWN SAYS ONE
SHOULD BE osTRAcIZED
FROM DECENT PEOPLE
STRONG CHARGE DELIVERED TO
GRAND JURY AT OPENING OF
THE COURT

The February term of the circuit
court was convened Monday morning
with Judge S. C. Brown presiding
Judge Browns charge to the granC
jury, while only thirty minutes in it,
delivery, was intense, especially upor
patriotism VS. bolshevism and perjury
Really his discussion of these two
subjects was to arouse the public con
science to discharge of duty. He
portrayed in earnest terms the i'm
perative duty of our citizens when
called for jury service saying that
our country is passing through a
crisis more severe than confronted us
when our boys went across the sea-
That the very life of the American
union is sought by the spirit that
carries the red flag of obstruction to
civil government; that the seeds of
bolshevism are being sown in Ameri-
can soil by the enemies of our insti-
tutions, and that opportunity is only
awaited by them to overthrow our
government with all it has vouchsaf-
ed for the public welfare, and es-
pecially is this true in the centers of
population among the foreign ele-
ment that have not been Americana
ed. Exhibition of this spirit of law
defiance was seen in the Knoxville
riot which was quelled only by mel.
in uniform, and the same evil spirit
will be seen in smaller towns in
Tennessee than Knoxville should op-
portunity offer. Except for the
court houses and jails, sheriffs and
policemen, and citizens on the juries
our farms and stores and shops would
soon be lost to us, and the demon of
crime and destruction would devas-
crime and destruction would devas-
tate the country.
Judge Brown made a strong appeal
to the citizens to sacrifice their time
when called to serve their country
upon the grand or trial juries, to
stand by the courts in enforcing the
law, to aid the sheriffs and police
men in detecting and furnishing the
law defiers of the land, and to stand
by the schools and churches in the
intellectual and religious training of
the rising generation, the hope of
our country.
jury was merciless. He held up to
view the awfulness of perjury, seen
especially in the smaller offenses and
particularly in the violation of the
liquor laws. He exhorted the people
to make perjury so disreputable that
sentiment against false swearing will
be as effective as it is against the
liquor peddler. That when one COM
mits perjury he should not be recog-
nized as man among decent people
and the finger of scorn pointed to
him continually by all good people
and that he be made odious as Cain
with the mark that was set upon him.
That no perjurer should be trusted in
employment and not ever be permit
ted to plow horse or feed hog or
clean up barn yard. That the per-
jurer should be ostracised and out
lawed everywhere, so much so that
when once committed his recognition
among decent people would be for
ever lost.
Disloyalty and perjury, if persisted
in, will destroy our civilization and
reduce us to Russianism, was the
argument so forcibly advanced by
Judge Brown in this far reaching and
able charge to the grand jury.
So far no term or court has seen
so much business done as at the
present term. The work is going
rapidly along with the smoothness
and precision of cloek work. An un-
usual number of convictions has been
the result.
Members of the grand jury are:
John M. Stewart,s foreman; Henry
Headrick, T. B. Howard, W. H. Lane,
S. A. Walker, G. G. Hearon, R. G.
Montgomery, /. G.. Huffstetler, Andy
Coulter, s. E. McKenry, Geo. F.
Kidd, Sam Hatcher, T. C.. Mccain
mon.
Panel No. w. B. Irwin, Tom
Miller, w. R. Goddard, Ben DeLozier,
Bob Riddle, J. B. Trout, Wesley
Feezell, Sam Russell, A. C. Gillen-
water, C. M. Prater, G. A. Pate, T.
J. P. Waters.
Panel No. PC. W. Emert, Floyd
Howard, John Lane, Will Thompson,
Sherman Mckinley, Millard Scott, w.
H. Hitch, A. M. Coulter, w. ]. Graves
J. T. Kellar, Charlie Hair and R. A.