Mack Jennings, former Elizabeth City resident whose motion for a change of venue to Gates County was allowed by Judge Devin early in the week last week, came into court Saturday and through is counsel entered a plea of guilty, whereupon the defendant was sentenced to two years in the Pasquotank jail with leave to the County Commissioners to hire him out and pay his wife the sum of $15 a month, or in case any firm or individual wishes to hire him, the Clerk of Superior Court will permit such firm or individual to do so upon payment of costs by the defendant and upon the defendant giving bond in the sum of $500 for appearance at each term of Superior Court to show good behavior and for the payment of $40 a month to his wife.
J.G. Jennings, for operating an automobile with open cutout, was found not guilty on verdict directed by the court.
George Reid, who has been having a controversy with the city police and recorder’s court officials as to the payment of dog tax, was found not liable to this tax by a Pasquotank jury Friday.
In the case of Lemuel Griffin vs. J.G. Williams et al, judgment was granted in favor of the plaintiff by reason of the failure of the defendants to file an answer to the complaint and the note in controversy was ordered cancelled.
The Elizabeth City Water Company noted an appeal from Judge Devin’s decision denying the injunction asked for by the water company to prevent the issuing and sale of bonds on the part of the city or any other step on the part of the city looking to the establishment of publicly owned utilities and the case will now go to the State Supreme Court.
From the front page of The Daily Advance, Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday, March 24, 1924.
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