Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-09-13

other day, "can easily be trained to
hunt 'possums, rabbits, partridges,
| foxes bears or even larger game. In
fact the late Theodore Roosevelt took
several of them with him on his last
big game hunt in Africa. They are
very intelligent, they are 4 one-man
dog and tney arc great lovers of chill
dren." Mr.. Scott would like to see the
Airdale increase in this section.
Honesty of the Jury.
81 don't take any stock in the declar
alton of Judge Sease that the petit ju-
ries are responsible for the alleged dis
repute into which the law is falling
said a York county court official in the
presence Of Views and Interviews, Sat
urday.
1T is my deliberate opinion that the
average York county petit jury wants
to do what is right in every case, and
unless misled in some way, either by
the lawyers or the judge, generally it
will do what is right.
81 am not lawyer, and am not sup
posed to know anything about law; but
as | understand it, the object Of the
courts is to punish evil doers for wrong
committed, to the end that it will make
them better citizens and by the exam
pie thus held up deter others from fall
ing into the same evil ways
"To be sure it is all right to temper
justice with mercy; but | have seen
many a case in which it looked to me
like the judge was deliberately bent on
undoing all that was possible of ac-
complishment through the proper pro-
cesses of the law.
For instance l have known cases
where the agencies constituted for the
purpose had spent weeks and weeks
running down violators Of the liquor
laws and getting the goods on them so
pat that escape was impossible, these
same vioIators would come into court
and on the advice of a lawyer plead
guilty of first offense and all that kind
of thing and receive a suspended SEN
tencc Why there is on record in our
court one case in which after an Of
fender had plead guilty attention was
called to the fact that he was then un-
der suspended sentence for the same
offensc and the judge did not do
thing but give him new sentence for
the new offense and suspend that.
"Of course a Judge is able to justify
himself for this kind of thing on the
ground of mercy on the ground of try
ing to make a better citizen Of the de-
fendant or any other old ground he
might, with a long, solemn, benevolent
face lay down; but as | see it it is all
bunk.
1.-THE acts of the general assembly
prescribe certain and particular doings
by citizens as transgression of the law,
and Judges are put on the bench to see
TO il that when these transgressions
are proved the transgressors are pun
ished in accordance with prescribed
i
way than that judges are or should be
as much bound by law as anybody else,
and when a judge. sworn to do ether
wise, assumes to be law unto him
self and allows a convicted transgress-
or to go free for the accommodate of
the transgressor's lawyer or for any
other reason. he is worse than the con-
vlcted transgressor himself.
Il am of opinion that if we will go
after every transgressor with a sharp
stick and punish him according to law
when he is found guilty, we will hear
less and less about the laws falling in
TO disrepute.
But Il judge who thinks he can do
any fool thing he wants to without
making a bad impression on jurors,
court officials and spectators, needs to
take a new start and learn something
better and sounder than he now seems
to have about him."