Judge J. Bis Ray of Burnsville opened a term of criminal court at the courthouse this morning, the court to last one week. There was no charge to the grand jury as the six months’ term of Judge Ray as presiding judge of this district began some time ago, and he addressed the grand jury at that time.
At the morning session of court four white boys, James Henderson, Fred Torrence, Grover McGraw and Edgar Pendleton, were charged with car-breaking and larceny. They were found guilty but sentence has not yet been passed upon them.
Allen Isenhour, white, was placed on trial this morning for carrying a concealed weapon. The case will be finished this afternoon.
The grand jury assembled this morning at the courthouse at the opening hour ready for duty, but had not make any presentments of interest up to the hour of adjourning for luncheon. It is expected that the grand jury will present bills of indictment in several alleged liquor cases, reports to this effect having gained circulation about the courthouse, but none have been made thus far.
The most important cases on the present docket are the liquor cases. The trial of W.W. Davis and G.C. Davis, charged with having jointly in their possession 360 quarts of bottled-in-bond liquor, is to come up at the present court. There is also a charge of the same nature against J.F. Davis, an aged white man living near Lakewood Park.
Robert Williams, a negro, is charged with homicide, but there is doubt that this case will be reached at the present term of court.
From The Charlotte News, October 3, 1921
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