The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1922-11-09
November Term of The Circuit Court
Convened Monday, November 9th.
Large Number of Law
yers, Litigants and
Jurors Present

"Oyer! Oyer! Oyer! The honor
able Circuit Court in and for the
County of Pearl River is now open
ed"
So chanted Sheriff John 7. Boyd
at nine o'clock last Monday morn
ing after Hon. j. @. Langston, of
Columbia, had ascended the bench
and declared the November term of
the Circuit Court convened and
ready for business. Judge Langston,
who was elected in the recent pri-
maries, is serving by special ap-
pointment in place of Judge Wealth
ersby, who is indisposed. Hon. T.
B. Davis, of Columbia, is Acting
District Attorney for Hon. Toxic
Hall, who is in Louisiana on i'm
portant business. Hon.. w. w.
Newsom, of Columbia, Court Ste
nographer, was present as was Cir
cult Clerk, Harvey S. Stewart.
Sheriff John T. Boyd has Joe Orr
as his Court Deputy.
An unusually array of legal talent
has been present the first few days
of Court, due probably to the equal
ly unusual amount Of grist to be
ground. There were noted: A. S.
Bozeman, Meridian; T. w. Davis,
Purvis; c. L. Waller, Bay St. Louis;
r. H. Dale, Columbia; U. B. Par
ker, Virgins; w. L. Wallace, Lum-
berton; C. d. Vance, New Orleans;
C. H. vuncanon, Chattanooga; John
r. Tally, H. S. Stevens, Judge R.
w. Heidelberg, Alexander Currie,
F. C. Hathorne, Dan Currie, Zan
Anderson, C. w. Sullivan, Cephus
Anderson, Hattiesburg; L. L. Tyler,
J. E. Stockstill, T. ]. Weaver, Pic
ayune; Ex-Governor Theo G. Bilbo,
w. A. Shipman, o. F. Smith, E. b
Williams, j. c. Street, ]. M. Morse,
d. H. Parker, and J. C. Shivers.
Of the local bar.
The Court lost no time in pre-
liminaries but got right down to
business and impaneled the Grand
Jury, giving the members sound
and sensible charge in which he
specially stressed the need of their
looking carefully after violators Of
the liquor laws andSabbath descra-
ton. The following is the COM
position Of the
GRAND JURY
G. w. Holcomb, Foreman; Ira
Smith, F. G. Baxter, F. E. Amacker,
C. C. Scarborough, j. ALI Wheat, D,
Lloyd Smith, P. r. Mitchell, J. F.
Padgett, Smith Dicken, James S.
Amacker, ]. R. Lee, L. H. Anack-
er, Hugh Spence, M. A. McMicheal
Guy F. Davis, G. W. Walker and
J. T. Smith. The Baliff for the
Grand Jury is R. G. Garrett.
The following were sworn in to
serve for the first week as Petit
jurors:
Jury No. l
Inman Rawls, J. H. Wheat, H. H,
Wheat, William Stockstill, Will Hol-
ston, G. 6. Seal, T. M. Cox, Sam
G. Smith, Albert Smith, B. M.
Wheat, and T. R. Sones.
Jury No. 2
J. w. Bradshaw, G.. G. Wheat, "
B. Graves, L. L. Watkins, J. B.
Spiers, Leonard Mitchell, S. G..
Smith, j. B. Moody, H. X. Amacker,
Russell Smith, J. J. Holden and
Gilbert Shaw.
The Docket was sounded during
the first day and many cases were
set for this and the succeeding
weeks of the term.
During it's first session the Grand
Jury returned true bill against
Clarence Archer for murder, and ne
has been jailed. Archer, it is al
legged, murdered Travis Wheat, his
brother-in-law, at Picayune, about
the twentieth of August. The case
will probably come to trial next
week.
After opening on Tuesday morn
ine the Judge adjourned Court unit
the afternoon 50 that as many as
possible could 90 to their voting
: places and participate ID the gener'