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Saturday, August 17, 2024

On Docket Before Judge M.V. Barnhill, Aug. 17, 1924

Mammoth Docket Faces Judge Here This Week. . . 62 Cases in Which Charges Range from Violations of State Sanitary Laws to Rape and Murder, Docketed for Two Weeks Term of Wayne County Superior Court—Rocky Mount Jurist to Preside Over Sessions

With 62 criminal cases on the docket to be disposed of, Judge M.V. Barnhill of Rocky Mount will tomorrow morning convene a two-weeks’ term of Wayne county superior court, and indications are that the entire term will be consumed in disposing of the unusually large docket.

This term was originally set for the trial of both criminal and civil cases, but upon agreement of attorneys, it was decided to devote it entirely to the disposal of criminal cases, in an effort to rid the docket of these. In case the criminal actions are disposed of in time, it is possible that the civil docket will be gone into.

The cases of the docket range all the way from violations of sanitary law to rape and murder, with larceny, housebreaking, reckless driving of automobiles, embezzlement, and half a score of other crimes thrown in for good measure.

Cases to be Tried

The following cases are on the docket to be disposed of this term:

State vs John Williams, receiving stolen goods.

State vs Thomas Pierce, violating the automobile law

State vs Irene Thomas, violating the state sanitary law

State vs Steve Outlaw, violating state sanitary law

State vs Dora James, violating state sanitary law

State vs Salle Pew, violating state sanitary law

State vs Pauline Williams, violating state sanitary law

State vs Willie Cox, violating state sanitary law

State vs J.J. Hatch, violating state sanitary law

State vs R.A. Harlen, housebreaking and larceny

State vs Luke Smith, embezzlement

State vs Lonnie Lee, arson

State vs Mary Davis, arson

State vs Clarence Langston, receiving whiskey and having it for sale

State vs Ben Robinson, selling whiskey

State vs Ella Austin, selling cocaine

State vs Harrel Carter, seduction

State vs Ed Wiggs, drunkenness

State vs L.F. Pearsall, receiving and welling whiskey

State vs Amos Best, trespass

State vs Mitchell Pender, receiving and selling whiskey

State vs Russel Bethea, assault with deadly weapon and reckless driving

State vs Bob Edmundson, rape

State vs Frank Murray, disposing of crops

State vs John Holms housebreaking

State vs Ira Lane and Joe Mitchell, receiving stolen goods

State vs Joshua Mitchell, receiving stolen goods

State vs J.R. Rains, abandonment

State vs C.R. Matthews, embezzlement

State vs Ike Everett, larceny and receiving stolen goods

State vs Ernest Ezzell, assault

State vs Fitzhugh Lee, Luther Sullivan and Best Coley, false imprisonment

State vs Doll Baker, embezzlement

State vs P.F. Jones, reckless driving

State vs Lonnie Love, larceny

State vs George Love and Ione Pearsall, fornication and adultery

State vs Murray Artis, having and transporting whiskey

State vs Murray Artis, larceny

State vs B.H. Lettett, operating a car while drunk

State vs Lonnie Smith, disposing of mortgaged property

State vs John Davis, violating state sanitary laws

State vs Daniel Clark, false pretenses

State vs Charlie Hogans, bastardy

State vs A.D. Avery, violating state sanitary laws

State vs W.H. Fultrell, reckless driving

State vs George L. Grantham, assault with intent to rape

State vs Wayne Mitchell, seduction

State vs W.H. Phipps, false pretense

State vs Clarence Davis, making whiskey

State vs James Hogans, false pretense

State vs B.W. Biggs, embezzlement

State vs James Riley, murder

State vs Charlie Johnson, housebreaking

State vs Walter Sanders, operating an automobile while drunk

From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Sunday, Aug. 17, 1924.

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn93064755/1924-08-17/ed-1/seq-1/#words=AUGUST+17%2C+1924

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