Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1921-10-04
BUSIEST TERM
OF CRIMINAL
COURT TO END
Session Now Closing Marked
BY Numerous Cases and
: Many Convictions

Y With but one divorce case remain
ing to be heard and little routine
business yet to dispose Of 1t was
thought by court officers that the
present term of the criminal branch
of district court over which Judge
Timon has presided would be adj
journed during the afternoon scs-
sion today.
A review of proceedings since the
term began shows it to have been
one of the most crowded and inn
portant ever held in Cameron coun-
ty. Convictions were secured by the
Prosecutor w. r. Jones in all cases
tried except four, in two of which
an acquittal was ordered by the
court and in the other two the indict-
mants dismissed on technicalities.
Twelve men got prison terms There
were no suspended sentences. One
previous suspended sentence became
operative.
Motion for change Of venue in the
case against Federico 0rtega and
Ramon Rincones on charges of muir
der of Marie Schroeder near Rio
Hondo was granted, transfer to Will
son county being ordered.
Sentences fixed by juries where
verdict Of guilty was found ranged
all the way from two years for small
thefts and burglaries to forty years
for a coniction of murder in the
case against Palo Perez. accused of
the killing of DR.. +. s. Mccain dur
ing the bandit troubles in 1915.
Seventeen cases were continued
on the docket of the present term,
offenses alleged ranging from stolen
property into the state to murder.
Four eases were ordered to the coun-
ty court for disposition and two
murder indictments were dismissed
for want Of sufficient evidence to
convict.
In discussing the term just con-
cluded Judge Tinon said that II had
proved one Of the. busiest and most
important since he became judge in
this district. The number Of capital
cases had been unusually large, he
declared, as well as the list Of in
dictments brought for lesser crimes.
BY permitting no time TO be lost or
wasted between cases, and by dove
failing other cburt business whenever
intervals arose, he observed, II had
been possible 20 accomplish a great
deal Of work in comparatively shore
time.
It had always been his endeavor,
the judge continued. to enchoach up
on a talesman's or jurors time as
little as possible consistent with or
Gerly discharge Of the laws process-
es. He regarded each individuals
time as valuable to that individual,
end made it a point to release jurors
and talesmen from service whenever
opportunity offered. He fully re-
cognized, he further intimated, that
lawyers engaged were at their eg-
ular vocation, while talesmen and
jurors were Withdrawn from theirs
TO assist in uphoIding the law. He
reiterated his policy in this respect.
voiced during the term, that he would
permit no unnecessary delay in the
handling of cases by negligent at
torneys.
"The court is second only to the
church in point Of sacredness," the
the jurist concluded. "Grave mat
ters come before il; it sometimes
snuffs out peoples lives or decrecs
terms of years in confinement. The
nature Of its business Is a solemn one
and should he regarded with the ut
most seriousness by everyone in the
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