Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-22

hand and handed it handle first to
Chief Page. He drew that gun with
his left hand you know man does
not draw a gun that way when he is
going to shoot-and there was some
movement on the part of Hughes as
though he was about to take off his
badge
THAT Is just as plain as the noon
day sun. Hughes was a brave man,
there Is no doubt about that. Not a
cell in his body responded to the call
of fear. When Moore had walked over
to him and lifted him from the side
walk two or three times and jolted
him up and down, and he had asked to
be let loose, and you walked up and
said, Don't get huffy about it, he
knew he was in an air Of hostility and
he removed his gun and was reaching
to take off his badge to completely
remove his official capacity so he
could fight you like man. He intend
ed to play fair, he intended fighting
you fair.
There is one thing you have been
taught since you were a child at your
mothers knee, and you rompcd over
the Fairgrounds at school, and that
was to fight fair; to never hit man
when he is down. You learned to fight
like that when you went to school-and
God bless us for the boys who want to
fight when they are wrongcd or op-
pressed for it was that same spirit that
made Americans victorious in the
world war-but you were taught never
to strike a man after he is fallen.
"If the first bullet you fired into
Hughes body went straight back and
tore down the spinal cord, he was
probably paralyzed. There is no tcsti-
money that he was, but it is practical
theory that he was When he fell to
the sidewalk, wounded in the abdomen,
he very probably was paralyzed from
his shoulder down. Now, If you had
shot three times in succession and
your gun about in the same position
as you say you did, one of the bullets
would have passed into the crowd that
were around the front Of the store and
probably killed some one else. Ashley,
you shot that man after he had fallen
to the sidewalk. You shot him as he
lay there, helpless and paralyzed, as
say, from the head down, and the
bullet ranged down, indicating that it
could not have come from the position
in which you claim to have held your
gun.
What should be done to man
after he has shot another one time
fires upon him after he has fallen
HELPLESS TO the ground? | could leave
that question to you il you'd speak the
convictions your conscience dictates, OF
the opinion of any -blocdcd mar
would speak.
"In charging the jury, l told them
would consider a recommendation al
though one would not be binding upor
the court. The jury have seen fit no
to give you a recommendation and
take it that they did not feel 1t theh
duty to ask the lenicncy Of the court
God knows have tried to give you
fair trial, Ashley. You have been ably
represented by counsel; the lawyer
who defended you have done all with
in their power; they have presented
every line Of the testimony in you
favor to the jury and if they have taii
ed to do their best in any detail IN
court cannot recall it,
"Rcgardless Of what others say, an
going TO do what | think right after
long. clrcful, and | am not ashamed u
say, rrayrul deliberations, God knows
hate to do it. but my conscience Is clea
that | am doing my duty as the cir
cumstanccs ard facts surrounding IN
case show.
THE sentence of the court Is ina
Won be corfncd at hard labor upo'
the public works of Anderson count!
or in the state pCnitcntiar for p,rio'
of tnc,vc years"