Plea of Attorney on Behalf of Unoffending Children Is Worn Threadbare, Court Says. . . Total of 24 Months in Work Sentences Is Imposed on Three Defendants During Saturday’s Session of Recorder’s Court; Nose Bleeding Negro Given Another Opportunity; Many Judgments Appealed
A total of 24 months in road and workhouse sentences was imposed during Saturday’s session of Recorder’s court although the docket was one of the lightest and among the least interesting to come up for disposition during the past two weeks.
The time imposed is divided among three defendants, two men and one woman, all negroes, and with one exception all appealed and furnished cash bonds for appearance in superior court.
Bud Bailey and Bessie Parker, holdovers from the early part of the week, were the hardest hit of the number tried although both of them had ample cash for bonding purposes and will remain at liberty until called in superior court. They faced a double charge of using a room for immoral purposes and illegal possession and although represented by able counsel were convicted on both counts even after Tommie Parker, husband of the woman, making the best of a bad situation, came into court and sought to shoulder all blame in the liquor case by claiming ownership of the half gallon of whiskey found under the front steps. He succeeded in involving himself and paid a fine of $25 and costs, although the aid proffered the other missed ???
Bailey was given a total of 10? Months on the roads while the woman goes to the workhouse for a solid year unless a jury elects to reverse the findings of the recorder. Council for the defendants was unsuccessful in his efforts to have punishment lessened through a reference to the woman’s children who, he said, should not be made to suffer but the court was obdurate, advising that this matter had been taken into consideration in previous cases and was about worn threadbare. Their bonds totaled $400 and were given in cash.
Belton Blakney and Irene Coverson, charged with using a room for immoral purposes, were dismissed as not guilty, the court advising that there was a strong suspicion but that this was insufficient to warrant conviction.
R.L. Siler paid a fine of $5 and cost for speeding but appealed for a guilty judgment in a case charging injury to property. He will carry the case higher in an effort to avoid payment of damages alleged to have been done when his car is said to have struck a machine being towed on Alston avenue. Siler’s car is said to have turned completely over but without injury to its occupants. His appearance bond was given.
A.H. Lee, convicted earlier in the week on charges of drunkenness and illegal possession and fined $5 and cost in each case was back in court Saturday, open handed and empty pocketed. He will do a 60-day stretch on the roads in satisfying society, 30 days for each offense.
Haywood Thorpe, one of several charged with vagrancy, pleaded guilty but his explanation gives him another chance and provided he hunts up employment and stays with it, he will not be required to serve the 30-day sentence imposed with capias to issue at any time during the next two years. Thorpe according to this story in court, was laid off at the Bull factory because of a bleeding nose that damaged tobacco stacks and did not expect to return to work until Monday. Cases charging Spurgeon Yancy and Tom Edwards with vagrancy were continued until later dates for hearing. Robert Hopkins paid the cost for violating an automobile law.
Edgar Lyon, Durham-Oxford-Henderson bus driver, convicted of injuring property through a criminal act, appealed from a judgment that would require payment of $25.50 to the owner of the Essex car alleged to have been damaged in a smash at the Liberty mouth of Cleveland street several days ago. His appearance bond was fixed at $50.
From page 24 of the Durham Morning Herald, Sunday September 28, 1924.
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