Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-07-11
GENERAL SESSIONS

GENERAL SESSIONS
The July term of the court of gen.
eral sessions convened yesterday
morning with Hon. f. p. McGOwan of
Laurens, presiding as special Judge.
Hon. J. X. Henry representing the
state, Stenographer Wood taking the
testimony and other court officials at
their respective posts.
| The business of the court was gotten
under way without unnecessary waste
of time. and Judge MCGOWAN put the
grand Jurors to work with brief but
comprehensive instructions.
am not going to deliver any
| lengthy charge to you gentlemen OF
the grand jury, said Judge MCGOWAN;
| because it is not necessary. L nave
one word of advice and admonition for
you and that is that grand jurors have
no vacation. You are on duty both
when court is in session and when the
court is on vacation. Your duties eX-
| tend over the entire year. You must
be vigilant at all times in watching for
violations of the law. If you know Of
violations of the law in remote sec
tions of your county where no warrant
| mas DeGH lSSueu IL 10 yOul uuLy anu
your right to make the necessary pres
entments. Most magistrates will do
their duty I know but some times
there are strong men who will commit
breaches of law and run rough shod
over the weak and officers will fall to
go after the strong men. If you know
| Of any such cases do not fail to do
your duty. This court, remember, is
not afraid to prosecute any man or set
of men for violations of the law.
In the course of his brief charge
Judge MCGOWAN took occasion to COM
pliment the grand jury upon the erec-
tion of York county's handsome court
house. | have visited a number OF
modern courthouses over the state, he
said, and | do not know Of one that is
equal to this public building Of York
county in beauty and magnitude OF
proportions. Your courthouse or other
public buildings are an index to your
degree of progressiveness. And it is
the duty of you gentlemen of the grand
jury to enforce the laws which this
handsome building idealiZes, he said.
His honor was quite liberal with the
petit Jurors who for one reason or
another found it incOnverjent to serve,
eXcusing the following: ID. NJ Ford, B.,
VI. Sturgis, p. y. McCaw, Earl Hope,
J. Wesley Anderson, |. 5. Kidd, ). l..
Brown, J. NJ. Mitchell
A number Of cases in which the de-
PENDANTS plead guilty were disposed of
as follows:
Elliott Potts, larceny; three years in
the reformatory.
George f. Burrage and Horace
Chapman, larceny and receiving stolen
goods; each five months on the public
works of York county.
Oscar d. Talbert, larceny and receiv-
ing stolen goods: ten months on the
public works Of York county.
Hugh Sniper, hOusebreakinG and lar
ceny: six months on the public works
Of York county.
Henry Lee, alias Jerry Johnson,
housebreaking and larceny; five years
in the state penitentiary
Sam Jones, larceny; four years in
the colored rcfOrmatory at Lexington.
viii Rankin, highway larceny; seven
years on the public works or in the
state penitentiary.
Arthur Manly and Eva Wilson,
adultery; months or $50 each. Both
paid fines.
George Sherrell violation OF the dis
pensary law; six months or 500. Paid
tie fine.
FRANK SmlJn was urea OH the ClIdlbS
of murder and acquitted.
Tho last case taken up yesterday
afternoon was that of the state vs.. Ben
Hurter and ]. B. Butler of Rock Hill,
charged with transporting liquor in
violation of the dispensaly law. The
defendants are two Rock Hill men more
or less notorious in connection with
the Bookkeeping business. Last April,
according to the testimony, while
Policeman Moss was making patrol
out in the direction of the river he
passed a Ford car in which Hunter
and Butler were going toward ROCK
Hill. On general suspicion nc turned
and followed them. At Farris's store
they turned into q side road and pro-
ceeded to Il spring where they stopped.
The policeman saw the two men en-
gagged in removing something from the
car half carrying and half throwing.
Arriving at the spot, the men were
simply waiting. Search disclosed ten
halS-gallon fruit jars of whisky in the
honey suckle vines by the spring, some
~ therr wrapned in pages of the New
York Times of April 9. In the car
were some crOcus sacks and in one of
the sacks were pages of the New York
Times of the same issue. The de-
PENDANTS denied all knowledge of the
liuuor and when asked what he was
doing out there, Hunter could not see
that il was any of the policeman's
business. especially since it was out of
his Jurisdiction The liquor was seized |
and the two men were arrested. TE"
men told the court that the mulflcr OF
their car had needed attention ana the
papers in the car had been used for
protection against the heat while II
was being repaired, otherwise they
knew nothing about the papers. None !
of the witnesses for the state were
able to testify as to the contents of the
jars except by the odOr, which they
said was that of corn liquor, and when
the court recessed last night it was
with the understanding that the soli-
citor would have the liquor in evidence |