The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1922-12-28
Full Docke SFor Circuit
Court of Rankin County to
Be Held Here in J0nuQrU
First Term of Circuit Court Held In Rankin County Since
July, 1921 Some Interesting Cases To Be Tried AT
This Term. Men Of Juries Chosen Saturday and
Notices Sent To Each. Begins Monday, January 8th

Circuit Court of Rankin
County will convene here on
Monday, January 9Th, 1923.
Judge G. E. Wilson will pre-
side. This is the first session
of court to be held in this
county since July, 1921. The
January and July terms for
1922 were pretermitted, on
account of the scarcity Of
cases to be tried.
Only a few years have
passed since court was held
twice a year in this county.
And it was not held because
people thought it should be
held. 1t was held because
there were so many crimes,
so much whiskey selling 60
ing on that the dockets
would be full before time for
court to open.
Now. since the liquor law was
passed. there are not nearly SO many
crimes committed in the country.
And as Il result. we have court about
once ii year. instead of twice Il year.
thus saving the tax payers thousands
of dollars.
Interesting Cases On Docket.
The court will open with a very
fun docket. All of the cases for the
last two terms were brought over
To this term. Some of the cases TO
be tried this time will be very in
tcreSting.
The jurors were chosen last Sat
urday. and notices have been sent
to each of them.
Law enforcement rests largely i'll
the selection of juries for our courts.
As generally known, the manner of
choosing the members of the jury
is by the Board of Supervisors select
ing a number of men in various parts
of the county before hand, and the
jury is drawn from this list.
The selection of the jury is a very
important matter. No men but those
who are law abiding. upright men
should serve on Il jury. 1t Is easy
To get men who are not in sympathy
with law enforcement on the jury.
Justice is often miscarried by having
the wrong sort of men on the jury.
The following is list of the jurors
for the coming term of court:
First Week
Beat No. II. L. BOteler, T.. w.
Hudson. X. NJ. Laird, w. l.. White,
]. w. Taylor, Sr., Edd Neely, ID. B.
Crawley. J. 2. Russell, j. r. Taylor
and w. n. Tucker.
Beat No. pr. A .McRae, j. j.
Murphree, S. r. Myers, Joe Purvis,
Mack Whitley, w. L. Maxey. c. W.
Cox, J. E. Ainsworth, G. c. Sprague
aud NJ. Childre.
Beat No. 81. b. Williamson,
w c. Brown, j. w. Speer, w. I.
Watts, w. Fl. Walsh, II. w. Measles,
II. B. Kersh, c. NJ. Porch, A. +.
Brame. and F. E. Slade.
Beat No. Nv. F. Wilson, Jr.,
w. L. Barrow, ii. l.. Robbins, J. L.
Tanner, w. l.. Mobiles, Evon Penning-
ton. ]. S. Franklin, ID. G. Ragsdale,
f. 2. HoMon and c. V. Walters.
Beat No. 5-V. H. Jones, r. X.
EcholS. Tom Everett, ]. II. Boone,
$. w. Cox, A. ]. Grantham, Claud
Cook, Frank Gill. G. c. MiZe and
l.. 2. Donnell.
Second Week
Beat No. 1-Isiah Smith, Jr., VIM.
Grantham, c. C. Williams, Drewey
Hilton. r. NJ. Holcomb and J. L.
Burke.
Beat No 2-J. w. Harper, ]. c.
White, w NJ Riddle, c. c.. Stevenson,
$. A. Brown and e. L. Ferguson.
Beat No. 3-R ID. Sheriff., w. Il.
Worley, J. A. Robinson, III. ID. Tinnln,
Henry Harrell and w. NJ. Slade.
Beat No I'D. A. Edwards, w. III.
Elliott, ]. f. Duncan, w. ID. Pace,
f. w Massey and J. +. Everett.
Beat No. SC. III. Means, t. w.
Franklin, J. S. Alexander, w. b.
Sowell, T. J. Fletcher and r. n.
Parks.