Pocahontas star herald., 1925-01-22
CIRCUIT COURT IN
SESSION THIS WEEK

The January term of the Randolph
circuit court convened here Monday
morning with Judge J. c. Ashley pre-
siding. Court was called promptly at
nine o'clock and the following court
officials were present: Oscar Il. Ellis,
prosecuting attorney; w. III. Perrin,
sheriff Ben +. Mays, clerk III. j. Den
ton, court stenographer. Mr.. Perrin
has as his special deputies this week.
Grover Dubois who has charge of the
collectors Office, A. J. Gwin, J. Il. Nor
ris and John p. Johnson. r. c. Stub
blefield is chief deputy.
Immediately after court was called
the grand jury was impaneled. Three
members Of the regular panel were ex-
cused for cause and the vacancies fill
ed from the alternate list. The jury
is composed of the following:
]. d. Wells, foreman; Claud Mock,
clerk; J. II. Hatley, Hosford Brooks,
Andy Allen, Lee Mays, Oscar Prince,
German Brown, S. X. Childress, John
McFann, Lee Barnett, Joe Hall, w. +.
CrismOn, ]. ii. Richardson, Lee Davis,
Ed Thompson. j. II. Woodbridge is
bailiff for the grand jury.
Several members of the petit jury
were excused for cause and it was
found necessary to complete the jury
by selecting men outside the regular
panel chosen and the following were
selected: Dee Mock, Almus Porter,
Sid Litherland, Riley Lemmons, Frank
Byrd and Wesley Stone. These and
the eighteen following were sworn in
as petit jurors: Noah Crismon, Sam
Kuhn, Ora Bailey, Hulen Spencer, d.
III. Holder. J. w. Decker, Bass Davis,
Sular Burns, Jim Johnson, John Jack
son, J. win Riley, Denton Bly,, A. NJ.
Dunn, viii English, win Hambrick,
Earl Richardson, Dave Crawford and
W. c. McCrary.
Judge Ashley took special care in
delivering his charge to the grand jury
laying special stress on violations of
the liquor laws and others most fire.
quently violated. He selected J. ID.
Wells as foreman of the grand jury
and the body elected Claude Mock,
clerk.
The following members of the local
bar were present at the opening: Pope
& Bowers, SchoOnover & Jackson, ].
w. Meeks, ]. l.. BledsOe, f. n. Ellis,
Visiting attorneys the first and second
days were, ii. l.. Ponder, W. l.. Smith
and John l.. Fry, Walnut Ridge, Ex-
judge John B. McCaleb of Batesville,
II. c. Waldron of Black Rock and II.
c. Reigler of Little Rock.
A number of cases of minor import
ance were disposed of during the first
two days. While the last grand Jury
returned the usual number of true bills
they are of nature that will not re-
quire much time of the court and it is
thought that this term will not be
lengthy one.
The following jury trials have been
disposed of:
Chas. Wagner, assault to kill, not
guilty.
ST Bailey, drunkenness, guilty, fine
$500.
Henry Blackshear, possessing still,
not guilty.
Jack Murray, possessing still, not
guilty.
b. f. Sisson, selling liquor, guilty,
one year in the penitentiary. Defend
ant takes appeal to the supreme court.
The case of the state VS. Horace Bur
row. who was convicted of a statutory
offense at the last term of court, which
case was appealed to the supreme court
and remanded for new trial by that
court. was called Wednesday afternoon
and is on trial as this paper goes to
press. The state is represented by
Oscar Il. Ellis, Pope & Bowers and II.
G. Reigler. The defendant by Schoon-