Judge Cranmer, who president at the two weeks’ term of Granville Superior Court, finished up at noon last Friday and left for home at Southport to spend the week end.
George King, the piano man, who was convicted of assault upon W.L. ??, was ordered to pay cost of court and leave the county forever.
Andrew Ridley pleaded guilty to a charge of having whiskey for sale and the judge gave him six months on the roads. It was a case of mistaken identity that brought Ridley into court. He mistook Deputy J.E. Newton for the man who had ordered the whiskey. On the delivery of the whiskey, Newton arrested him.
Hill Mitchell, colored, who stated that he was 70 years old, was found guilty of manufacturing liquor, was given four months in jail.
Gus Ballamy and Ed Clark, negroes, who were found guilty of a charge of larceny of an automobile by a jury, received six months on the roads each.
From the front page of the Oxford Public Ledger, Nov. 25, 1924
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