Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-02-24

4 A H. Bush INV G. Holman
7. F. harper and G. W. Taylor,
Bailffs.
Jury No.
l. W. A. Smith S. A. Lever
Angus Adams P. M. Watkins
1 Ingram McDonaldG. NJ. Gilmore
!, W. N. Lee c. S. Jackson
4 J. F. Carr R. S. Curtis
4 E. \. Permenter J. B. Wilkerson
Y Jury No. 2
]. &. McIlwain O. B. Delaney
S. W. Heard W. G. Morgan ,
E L. Norwood. W. z. Lirdley
A. L. Aycock Shelf Campbell
4 L. T. Turner B. A. Lever
N. H Williams j. T. Watt
4 E. E. Dantzler appointed deputy
Icircuit clerk.
VII After all preliminaries were done
n with, Judge Carroll delivered his
4 charge to the jury, IN terms that were
N clear and forceful, leaving no ground
H uncovered that might leave the mem
bers of this important body IN DOUBT
! las to the course that it would be their
dutI to follow.
Il He instructed them that they We're
u not spectators in the court, there to
\ be entertained, but that they We're
there for the high purpose Of forming
I part of band who had the good OF
\ the community at heart, and who
were entrusted with mission that
/ should sober and awe them SO that
all frivoE1y ard Indifference should
\ be crowded out by the lure % it.
They were not to make and lay down
laws, but were chosen to this office
4 to enforce those that had already
l been made for the welfare and uplift
of the country, in the stamping out
4 of evil.
The crimes, more or less revolving
that are agitating the country to-day
I in different points, were touched upon
by him, in a comparison of these
criple-i infested regions With our own.
4 He asserted that this ommunity was
4 singularly free from misdemeanors
r of an abhorrent and obnoxious nature,
u To keep such a record in communi-
4 tv he stressed the Importance of law
enforcement If, he said, an offender
knows that for any crime, he can
" hire fine lawer, who will argue him
out of condemnation. he will soon con-
\ ceive contempt for the intefrity
of the courts. and such spirit will
| L spread until Bolshevism will be the
\ result
ID All offenders, according to the
| Judge do not belong in the same class.
|, and are not to be dealt with alike
!, there are accidental violators, and
lihabitual violators. Few men he thinks
are naturally bad and that the ar-
n cidental offenders are easily dealt
II with. one or two doses of the law
Y usually being sufficient to quell them.
Il But it is the old offerder-the towns
N "bad man" who is the menace. and
II on whom the arm of the law should
\ be laid with all its strength.
III Law and religion are what has
u raised man from the brute stage, ne
/ declared, these two go hand in hand,
] and are so closely identified, that de-
l>narkation signs are not perceptible.
s, So he thinks it is every mans duty to
help in the enforcement of the law
a and to watch his own steps, as well,
l 50 that he will not become stumbling
| block to any weaker brother. Also
\ be must watch every other mans con-
4 duct, and be sure that no one commits
acts that will sully the name of his
community.
/ The iudge had much to say as re-
cards the violation of whiskey law.
Whiskey-making. he believes, will
{ never be entirely stamped out. but
will be an existing evil as long as
man lives. just as theft and murders
\ will continue to occur. but on 40
other hand, it can be entirely elimin-
q ated from a community. if the people
& OF that community will stand behir1
the law, and see that anv maker or
Z vender of wiskey finds that. particu-
n lar community unhealthy for him.
Man is of srch social nature. that
n he can not live with out the fellow
4 chin nf his b~others and If commr-
nit- nuts a ban on whistey matino
ard whiskev selling. and offenders
are trnated n The law. ard octracizel
hv their naiphhors. reformation wir
he effected or he will hunt more cor
:. genial territory.