The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-09-26
CIRCUIT COURT
WORK OF SEPTEMBER TERM


The September term Of the Circuit
Court for Cecil County convened at
Elkton Monday morning, Sept. is.
Daniel Harvey was selected by the
Court as Foreman of the Grand
Jury, and the juries were constitu.
ted as follows:
Grand Jury-Daniel Harvey, Fore
man; James ". Bailey, George Con-
rey, Joseph B. Conner, Herman Hill
yard. William Stanley. Roscoe Raw
lings. Hugh Falls, Carl L. Taylor
Mayard G. Foster, Edgar J. Davis,
Thomas B. Howard, Thomas M. Lin
dell, William Ayres, Benjamin Ra-
cine, Joseph B. SINNERS, Robert
Russell, William F. Riley, Clifford
England, Frank Bennett, Holden i.
Ireland, Russell J. Reed, Frank A.
Reynolds.
Petit Jury-William H. Boulden.
Harry w. Kibler, Charles s. Boul-
den, Gustavus Henderson, H. ELS
worth SINNERS, Albert N. McNamee,
George A. Atkinson, Archie B. Trim
BILE, J. Edmund Crothers, Charles H.
Crawford, James A. Kirk, Cleaye F.
Potts, William c. Underwood. Price
Arrants, Andrew>J. Jones, George III.
Shure, Samuel R. Emerson. william
S. Dean, Lewis T. r. Ward, Arthur
A. Mackie, G. Forest Harvey. Andrew
Aiken, Norris G. Cameron, Eugene
Feucht, Ronald Bond.
Charles Kassing. indicted for the
murder Of Joe Dorine, ON March 2l.
1928, near Cowantown. was arraign.
ed, pleaded not guilty, and elected q
jury trial.
The witnesses for the State told
OF how Dorine, who was taking care
Of the motherless Smilyx children
had been shot through window and
killed; of the finding of the gun and
burned shells, and how Kassing and
Mrs. Vaughn had borrowed another
gun to replace the one buried. The
Smilyx children testified that Kas-
sing and John Webb Convicted OF
murder in the second degree at
Chestertown in May and now serv-
ing fourteen years,) had come to the
house earlier in the evening and had
returned later, Webb with gun and
Kassing with club, and that Webb
fired the fatal shot.
Kassing was the only witness for
the defense, and told Of being with
Webb, but said he left before the
shot was fired and Webb assured
him he had not killed Dorine. The
The jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter. Mrs. Dora Vaughn
jury returned a verdict OF man
slaughter.
Mrs. Dora Vaughn was arraign.
ed on an Indictment Of be-
ing an accessory after the fact In
the murder of Dorine. She pleaded
not guilty and elected trail by jury.
Wednesday morning, Mrs. Dora
Vaughn was placed ON trial before
jury, on the charge Of being an ac-
cessory to the Doranco murder.
The case was concluded Wednesday
afternoon and given to the jury,
which returned a verdict Of not
guilty after short deliberation.
Court next took up liquor cases
coming over from the March term.
Two cases against William A. Clark,
of Elkton, were Joined, one for pos
sessing liquor for sale, found on his
premises, and one for selling liquor
to Mrs. Mary Hammond, and a Jury
was sworn for their trial.
The jury was unable to agree and
was discharged. Two other cases Of
liquor selling by Clark to Herbert
Hammond and Howard Shivery were
tried by juries both OF which found
verdicts of Not Guilty" =.
The Grand Jury submitted its
final report on Thursday afternoon
and was discharged by Chief Judge
Adkins, with the thanks of the Court.
The report stated "a witnesses had
been examined, "a presentments and
indictments found and Is cases
ignored. Constables from the first
five districts reported no violations
in the districts.
John Goodyear, Of Elkton. in
six Of seven liquor cases pending
against him plead guilty and the
seventh was stetted. He had plead
not guilty in the first one for which
jury had been sworn. The fore
man, John E. Gonce was withdrawn,
and the jury was discharged.
Soloman G. Snowden plead guilty
on two charges of selling liquor and
on one of possessing liquor for sale.
In the last case he was given four
months in the House Of Correction,
as he had been two months in Jail.
and as he was not a confirmed boot
logger sentence was suspended in
the other cases.
John Goodyear, who had plead
guilty in six of seven March Term
liquor cases. was given year in one
case and six months in another and