The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-05-23
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 until 10:30 a. m. yesterday morning when Judge Robert T. Erwin discharged the jury. Court was adjourned one aft ernool during the trial on account of the illness of a juror.
 Immediately after being sworn in the jurors were put in charge of the United States marshaTs office and were in charge of two deputies day and night throughout the trial. The jurors were quartered in the Battle House and remained together during all the % days the trial continued. =
 The trial concluded this morning with a session of less than half hour but filled with the same dramatic tenseness and surprises that marked almost ey- cry day of the session.
 The roll was called and every one of the A defendants whose fate was in the hands of the 12 jurors answered present" All available space about the semi-circle that enclosed the de- fendants, lawyers. court stenographers, and newspaper men in front of the judges bench was crowded.
 After the roll call the jurors filed in and took their seats ill the jury box. All eyes centered on them as Judge Erwin inquired Gentlemen of the jury, have you reached verdict?
 We have. answered Foreman Dris- kill as he rose and drew from his pocket two pieces of paper. Silence filled the court room as he handed the piece of paper to Clerk of the Court Virgil Griffin the den0uement of the rum ring" drama that had been unfolded in court day by day for nearly month was at hand.
 Less than five minutes was consumed in the reading of the names of the guilty" and mot guilty" lists. the jury was discharged and the biggest trial ever staged in the state of Ala bama and one of the biggest and most important of its kind in any court in America came to an end.
 Out On Same Bonds
 One other session of court was held yesterday by Judge Erwin in connec- tion with the case. The II persons con- victed were called in court at noon and Judge Erwin ordered sentences de- ferred until June 9 in order that at torneys for the convicted men could have time to prepare their pleas for new trial. The convicted men were allowed their freedom on the same bonds under which they have been held since indictment until that date.
 Definite announcement of an appeal was made in only one case, that of P. J. O'Shaughnessy. His attorney, H. T. Smith, said that an appeal would be taken if new trial was not granted.
 Face Other Indictments
 Some of the defendants freed by the jury face other federal indictments in connection with the rum ring" investiga tion made in Mobile by fed eral men. Among them, are Sheriff Paul Cazalas, charged with interfering with officers in discharging of duty and Will liam H. Holcombe, who is charged with the same offense and also with con- spiracy to brihe a federal official in connection with H. NJ. Cochrane, Frank Boykin and Dr. A. G. Ward.
 Conclusion of testimony in the fed- eral trial came Monday afternoon when the prosecution rested with short re- buttal of one witness. Then came the proposal of the defense to let the case go to the jury without argument, which was accepted by the prosecution Tues day morning. After the decision to have no arguments in the case court was ad- journed for Tuesday to permit Judge Erwin to prepare his charge.
 This charge was delivered Wednes- day, proved the most sensational of any ever delivered in this court and one of the most unusual on record. Judge Erwin expressed the opinion that several of the men on trial were in the conspiracy and strongly intimated that others were not.
 Verdict Delayed
 The case went to the jury at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and the verdict was rendered 17 hours later, regarded as record time for a case of the magnitude of the rum ring" trial The verdict, however, was said to have been reached seven hours after the jury retired but because of the phy. sical impossible of assembling all the defendants and their attorneys at that time of the night the reading of the verdict was held up until the conven- ing of court this morning.
 Legal light of Alabama figured in both defense and prosecution during the trial. Hugo l.. Black, formerly prosecu' tor for Jefferson county and prom inent attorney of Birmingham, was chief counsel for the prosecution. He returned to his home Wednesday night without awaiting the reading of the verdicts. Prosecutor Black was assisted by Attorney N E. Stallworth of Mo bile and Acting United States Dis trict Attorney Joseph w. John.
 Among the lawyers for the defense were Attorneys H. T. Smith, Francis J. Inge. Alex Pitts of Selma, J. H Webb, ". IT. Armbrecht, Jere AustilI Sam Johnston, H. S. Smith. Gee Bates, c. T. McCorvey, Leslie Darde n B. J. Grove, Tisdale Touart, D. B Goode, Robert Gordon, Joseph McAlke and Foster K. Hale. tf
 The prosecution spent II days ii presenting their witnesses, the d Erens sev nedays and the prosecution |abou a half hour in rebuttal. Approxi jmatel, 50 witnesses were put on the stand b. the prosecution and over 100 Pby tn defense. 's'e
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