The Miami times. [volume] (Miami, Fla.) 1923-current, 1950-09-02


Judge l.. E. Thomas Municipal
Court. while discussing the number
of cases listed on the official docket
for Monday morning, August %.
And a record it certainly was-for
a total of 81 cases the greatest
number, so far, for any single day
since the court was officially open
ed. was docketed for trial on Mon
day.
Again, they paraded before His
Honor by ones, .twos and threes,
and again, like the very stern and
capable judge which he has dis.
tinguished himself to be, he waded
through the long list of defendants,
weighing each case upon its indi-
vidual merits, and having justice
prevail in each and every case.
Mondays session was highlighted
by two cases of assault and battery
fighting(- one involving two young
women and one man, and the other
involving two young men young
woman.
In the first case, Wyline Power
was charged with assault and
battery on Lugenia Power and
vice versa. Isaac Thomas was also
charged with fighting in this case.
In the second case Sherman Hall
was charged with assault and bat.
terry on his wife, Carrie Hall, and
vice versa. Also in this case Charles
Davis was charged with assault
with a knife on Carrie Hall and
with carrying concealed weapon.
In the first case, Wyline Power
was fined SIS and cost or 10 days;
Lugenia Power was fined SIS and
cost or 80 days. Isaac Thomas was
given a suspended sentence.
In the econd case Sherman Hall
was fined $50 and cost or "a days;
Carrie Hall was dismissed, and
Charles Davis was fined SIS and
cost or 10 days on the first charge
and $35 and cost or Is days on the
second. Patrolman Augustus Mat
thews was the arresting officer in
the first case, and Patrolman &,
Anderson was the arresting officer
I'm the second.
Among other cases disposed of on
Monday morning were the follow
ing:
George McQuay, Ephlam Kelly,
James McClinton, James Griffin,
Bernard Allen, James Thomas, VIII
10 10
win Johnson, Louis Jackson, James
Smith, Jack Odom, James Barnes,
Jim Brown, w. c. Barnes, Maria
Santiago, Josephine Clarke, Sammy
Gaines, Raymond Burgess, Mary
Frances Carlye, Babe Davis, James
White, Joseph Harrington and Har-
ry Evans were charged with being
drunk or drunk and disorderly con-
duct.
James Thomas, Louis Jackson,
James Smith, Josephine Clarke,
Sammy Gaines. Raymond Burgess
and James White were dismissed.
The others received fines aad sen.
fences in varying degrees from IS
and cost to 80 days without fine.
Cecil Role, Caster Lester, John
w. Bowles, Jake Campbell, Johnny
Washington and Robert Sims were
charged with disorderly conduct
(creating disturbances). Role and
Sims were dismissed The others re-
ceived fines and sentences ranging
from IS and cost or s days to 80
days in Jail.
Berry Moten, Mckinley Brown,
Eugene Hicks, Eulis Smith, Thomas
Smith, Alex Dunbar, Elvira Myers,
Oscar Taylor, Bertha Gibbs, Annie
Mckenzie and John H. Ferguson
were charged" with assault and bat
terry or assault.
Moten was charged with assault
and battery on Catherine Farmer,
Brown was charged with assault
and battery with rock) and as
Sault with a knife on Ida Cum
mings, Hicks was charged with as
sault and battery with a knife on
Eulis l.. Smith, and vice versa;
Thomas Smith was charged with
assault and battery on Edna STAN
lev. Dunbar was charged with as
sault with a knife On James StIIk'
land, Elvira Myers was charged
with assault with a pair of scissors
On Joe Wells. Oscar Taylor was
charged with assault with a knife
on Fred Wilson and with carrying
concealed weapon. Bertha Gioos
was charged with assault and bat