Criminal court convened at Wentworth Monday, Judge T.J. Shaw presiding.
Judge Walter Brock of Winston-Salem is acting as solicitor in the absence of Solicitor Porter Graves, who is in a Baltimore hospital under treatment for throat trouble.
W.A. Stacy of Reidsville is foreman of the grand jury.
Judge Shaw’s charge to the grand jury Monday morning was an able deliverance and was listened to by a large crowd. Court started on the docket at once and quite a number of cases, mostly minor liquor cases, have been disposed of.
The most important case to be tried is State vs. Ed Sisk and his two sons, Sandy and Hardy Sisk, on Thursday for the alleged killing of Deputy Sheriff Ed Zigler near Mayodan several months ago. A special venire of 100 men has been summoned from which to select a jury. This promises to be a hard fought case and will attract large crowds to the court house.
Cases on the docket from Reidsville township to be called are as follows:
Lee Saunders, larceny and receiving.
Robert Holt, violation prohibition law.
The Texas Co., blocking highway.
Roy McCanless, larceny automobile.
Hugh Black, violation prohibition law.
H.B. Farrow, violation prohibition law.
Lee Brooks, abduction.
Garland Dix, assault.
Garland Dix, violation prohibition law.
Bob White, violation prohibition law.
Frank Lindsay, larceny.
Fred Breen, violation prohibition law.
Andy Price and Bill Robertson, violation prohibition law.
Lee R. Ware, violation prohibition law.
J.B. Burgess, driving car intoxicated.
Essie Bason, resisting officer.
O.M. Wingfield, disposing of mortgage property, etc.
Oscar Ayers and Will Allen, breaking, entering, larceny.P> Robert Scales, carrying concealed weapon.
Will Mapp, assault.
A.C. Comer, R.L. and Nannie Dillon, violation prohibition law.
J.D. Snow, violation prohibition law.
Ernest Gordon, assault.
David Barker and Sanford Gillie, violation prohibition law.
Henry Griffin, violation prohibition law.
Grover Marks, assault deadly weapon.
Rawley Williams, assault deadly weapon.
Richard McCain, assault.
Early George, assault.
W.D. Hudson, violation prohibition law.
Ethel Whitt, larceny.
Carrie Johnson, larceny.
Mary Johnson, concealing stolen property.
Oscar Gurley, breaking, entering, and larceny.
Claude Durham and Sam Belton, breaking, entering, larceny.
Jesse Davis, rape.
J.D. Kelly and Ed Byers, violation prohibition law.
C.N. Warren, larceny and receiving.
Robert Perkins, driving car intoxicated.
James Martin, forgery.
Jessie Gillie, assault.
Will Whitener, murder.
Bulah Mitchell, larceny.
Clarence Watlington, larceny.
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, January 24, 1923
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