Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1922-09-27


ASHLEY, to begin with, ] have
the utmost confidence in the testi-
mony OF the little boy who was play
ing on the baseball ground and over
heard that conversation out near. the
sign-board. | tell you, Ashley, If
Hughes's trends had tried to manu-
facture evidence they wouldn't have
gone to little boy, who might break
down under the apprehension Of
cross-eXamination and given the
whole plan away. i attach consider
able Importance to the statement that
little boy made, and l believe the
jury in your case put full credence in
1t. Men rarely seek out little boys
and have them take part in hatch
edup story, for the risk is too great.
Boys the age Of that little fellow,
when they come into court, come to
tell the truth, and I believe this lit
lie fellow did tell it.
cause | don't want you to have any
grievance against the law. l want
you to feel that there is Jusulce IN
what am going to do, and If you will
ask your conscience and answer the
questions am going to ask you, you
will feel there is whether you say so
or not. Of course you have made ex-
cuses for this killing, and it appears
natural that you would. Ii seems to
me l would let my mind revert to
the scene Of the l1feless body being
carried to bullet-made widow,
whose screams would beat against
my ears. No power this side Of hea-
ven or hell could keep me from max
ing some excuse.
"Much has been said in this case
in an effort to solve why Hughes took
| out his gun. There is no doubt in my
mind that Hughes did remove his
pistol from his side. The chief Of
police was standing there, and he
says he took it from his left side
with his left hand and handed it
first to Chief Page. He drew that
gun with his left hand. You know u
man does not draw gun that way
when he is going to shoot, and there
was some movement on the part Of
Hughes as though he was about ITO
take off his badge.
THAT is just as plain as the noon
| day sun. Hughes was a brave man.
There Is no doubt Of that. Not cell
in his body responded to the call Of
fear When Moore ha. walked over
to him and lifted him from the side
walk two or three times he jolted
him up and down, and he had asked
to be lot loose, and you walked I'D
and said, Don't get husky about it,
he knew he was in an air Of hostil-
ity, and he removed his gun and was
reaching to lake off his badge to
completely remove his official capac-
ity so he could fight you like man.
He intended to play fair" he intended
fighting you fair.
There is one thing you have been
taught since you were child at your
mothers knee and you romped over
tho Fairgrounds at school, and that
was to fight fair, to never hit a man
when he is, down. You learned to
fight like that when you won't to
school--and God bless us for tho
boys who want to fight when they
are oppressed, for it was that same
spirit that made America victorious
In the World War. But you were
taught never to strike man after
he Is fallen
IF the first bullet you fired into
Hughes's body went straight back
and tore down the spinal cord, he
was probably paralyzed. There is no
testimony that he was, but 1t is a
practical theory that lie was. When
he fell to the sidewalk, wounded in
the abdomen, he very probably was